I would like to stop using popular search engines like Google, GoGoDuck etc. Has anyone on this forum had any experiences with an open source engine called “seeks”?
Thanks.
On 02/29/2012 03:56 PM, ionmich wrote:
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> I would like to stop using popular search engines like Google, GoGoDuck
> etc. Has anyone on this forum had any experiences with an open source
> engine called “seeks”?
no, but i have recently learned (from Malcolm, in usenet) of
startpage.com which might be what you are looking for–if you are
wanting a more ‘private’ search capability…
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Thanks for the link. Well, privacy is my main concern, but I found startpage.com to be pretty useless. Even after I had eliminated all the “family” filters and everything else, filtering was excessive. A search for a common (mild) swear word produced…
Your search - **** - did not match any documents.
Suggestions:
Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
Try different keywords.
Try more general keywords.
…while a search with Google produced…
Search
About 586,000,000 results (0.13 seconds)
On 02/29/2012 11:56 PM, ionmich wrote:
> A search
> for a common (mild) swear word produced…
then you did something wrong…
because … well, do you remember the old George Carlin standup routine
of the all the words that can’t be said on TV? i just searched on the
original “seven dirty words” and had zero trouble finding them…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words
so, check your setup…
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