Building a search engine index is a lot of work - and most of it is waiting! Luckily, once we get a solid index built, we'll be releasing it under a public-access API as well as a data export in SQL.
Does Google do that?
#SearchEngine
Mozilla Warns: Firefox Could Disappear
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.gizchina.com/2025/05/03/mozilla-warns-firefox-could-disappear/
Waterfox, the open source browser developed by a British developer from 🇬🇧, has just released a new metasearch engine powered by Google results.
They promise it'll be an engine with no tracking, no invasive advertising, and a cleaner interface. It'll have custom themes, advanced search options and a domain block list. And no AI.
Their business model is based on contextual ads (they ask you to disable your ad blocker) and maybe a subscription-based tier that removes all ads. If they can't make money, they say they might have to rethink their approach.
Official statement:
https://www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-private-search
"It's a real 'Harry Potter' moment!" - PJ VOGT, Should this creepy search engine exist?, Search Engine #SearchEngine #HarryPotterDay
ICYMI: Google opens AI Mode to all US users: Google's AI search experience expands with significant additions for local and shopping searches. https://ppc.land/google-opens-ai-mode-to-all-us-users/ #AI #Google #SearchEngine #DigitalMarketing #TechNews
Anybody know of a meta search engine that supports Google's search operator syntax, or at least something like it? I use SearXNG 99% of the time, but when a query calls for specificity, my only choice has been to, begrudgingly, go to Google so I can get busy with quotes and parantheses.
I just updated Waterfox the other day, and they mentioned their new meta search engine in the changelogs, so I took a look at it, and unlike DDG or SearX, it seems like it's less of an aggregator that pulls results from multiple sources, and more of a privacy cloak between you and your selected search engine of choice, so I was hoping that if I chose Google, it would mean I could just use that when I needed to instead of going to the source, but based on initial tests, that does not seem to be the case.
I mean it works as a Google meta search engine in general, but the returned results implied that search operators were stripped/sanitized to some extend. Well, either that, or my super-specific query failed to return results and it defaulted to a more generalized version of my query without telling me, but idrk; I didn't really do any tests to prove/disprove that theory.
@TMU_CW That would be a big step. There’s also a consortium of large research institutions working towards a European #searchengine :
https://openwebsearch.eu/ #digitalsovereignty
Two services that can help grow your blog
Every blogger would like to be the #1 blog, but with recent changes to Google and AI, it is getting harder for your content to get noticed. Here are 2 alternatives to consider.
Feedle.word: Feedle is a search engine specifally for blogs and podcasts. . On the one hand, it allows you to search their database of millions of blog posts and p
https://tosay.blog/two-services-that-can-help-grow-your-blog/
#Blogging #1 #BlogGrowth #SearchEngine #seo
Google opens AI Mode to all US users: Google's AI search experience expands with significant additions for local and shopping searches. https://ppc.land/google-opens-ai-mode-to-all-us-users/ #GoogleAI #SearchEngine #AIMode #LocalSearch #ShoppingSearch
Oh great, now Google Search is getting that "well, actually..." friend energy with its new AI Mode tab! 🤓
Rolling out to "a small percentage" of US users, it'll give conversational responses instead of just links. Because apparently regular search results weren't chatty enough!
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/01/1723229/google-is-putting-ai-mode-right-in-search
There is no genuinely European #searchengine, is there? Most “alternatives” use #Google or Bing from #Microsoft in the background.
The search engine “Good”, based in #Berlin, no longer has advertising, has a low-threshold subscription and has some other positive features.
Web data does not come from Big IT, but from @brave which focuses on privacy, but also raises a few question marks (crypto commitment, seed funders)
Who knows more about #Brave?
https://good-search.org/?q=
ICYMI: Google's search dominance continues, capturing 87% market share in Q1 2025 https://ppc.land/googles-search-dominance-continues-capturing-87-market-share-in-q1-2025/ #Google #SearchEngine #MarketShare #DuckDuckGo #Privacy
ICYMI: Google's search dominance continues, capturing 87% market share in Q1 2025: Cloudflare's latest search engine report reveals DuckDuckGo and privacy-focused alternatives slowly gaining ground despite Google's overwhelming lead. https://ppc.land/googles-search-dominance-continues-capturing-87-market-share-in-q1-2025/ #Google #SearchEngine #MarketShare #DuckDuckGo #Privacy
Ecosia: Was steckt wirklich hinter dem Google-Konkurrenten? (Ecosia: What's really behind Google's competitor?)
Is Ecosia fake? What's behind it?
The article (in German) is quite long and contains a great deal of information about Ecosia, including its founder, history, development, controversies, privacy, the people who plant the trees, how Ecosia verifies this, financial reports, users experiences etc.
https://zeit---geist.de/magazin/ecosia-suchmaschine/
#ecosia #searchEngine #EuropeanAlternatives
"How much is our national debt RIGHT NOW?" - PJ VOGT, Why the national debt might finally matter, Search Engine #SearchEngine
ICYMI: Google's search dominance continues, capturing 87% market share in Q1 2025 https://ppc.land/googles-search-dominance-continues-capturing-87-market-share-in-q1-2025/ #Google #SearchEngine #MarketShare #Cloudflare #DuckDuckGo
ICYMI: Google's search dominance continues, capturing 87% market share in Q1 2025: Cloudflare's latest search engine report reveals DuckDuckGo and privacy-focused alternatives slowly gaining ground despite Google's overwhelming lead. https://ppc.land/googles-search-dominance-continues-capturing-87-market-share-in-q1-2025/ #Google #SearchEngine #MarketShare #Cloudflare #DuckDuckGo
Ich komm nicht mehr weg von #DuckDuckGo. Hab die letzten Tage #MullvadLeta als Standard ausprobiert, aber ich bin komme nicht klar, weil ich abhängig von den #DuckDuckGo-Abkürzungen bin. 💉
Einfach nach "Blabla !w" suchen und es kommt direkt die #Wikipedia-Seite von "Blabla". Oder "Ding !gi" und es werden die #Google-Image Ergebnisse angezeigt. Oder "damn !leo" für ne Übersetzung mit #leo. Ich kann nicht mehr ohne. Locked in. 🤷 #Bangs #privacy #SearchEngine #SuchMaschine
https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
Google's search dominance continues, capturing 87% market share in Q1 2025 https://ppc.land/googles-search-dominance-continues-capturing-87-market-share-in-q1-2025/ #Google #SearchEngine #MarketShare #DigitalMarketing #Privacy
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