Can you elaborate on your business model, especially since advertisers can “bet” on keywords with a token system? I am concerned that the relevance of advertisements can take a darker turn as mentioned by the rest of the community.
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Reading and will be getting to everyone’s responses, thank you all.
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I gave Presearch a try and actually like it. The results are the same as DuckDuckGo which I use. I do have some quick questions though:
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What is the difference between the NSFW Mode and Safe Search settings? They seem the same to me.
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Do you or will you have a way to save the settings similar to DuckDuckGo? For example, I can save my settings within a link in my bookmark like this: %s at DuckDuckGo ← (Hover over with your mouse pointer to see the complete link)
Other options DuckDuckGo offers are to save your settings as a json file or see the settings in cookie data.
Additional info:
- Questions from previous posters are extremely important to me to be sure that your service is indeed privacy oriented. I too use uBlock so I’m not worried about the ads as they can be taken care of on my end (everyone takes privacy seriously here so I’m sure you understand we all have tools that will be used to assure privacy). Hopefully your web site will rise above but until then, I’ll wait for your answers and what the community recommends.
Dug into the engine a few months ago to potentially add it to my self-hosted searXNG instance. I think the entanglement w/ crypto makes it hard to see the product seriously. Also, this gave me pause from the privacy policy:
We may share transient information with trusted partners during a particular request, for purposes of providing the Service. This may include trusted advertising providers who contractually agree to delete the information after the request is completed so that it is not stored.
Can you speak to what data is shared with ‘trusted advertising partners’?
Have to get to these sporadically in small batches – apologies, can’t do it all at once.
I’ll address the crypto more in a future post… but understandable. Because of this forum we’re leaning toward changing the AI search result to have free answers populate (most of the world expects this by now) without the need to stake to use.
Now for the crypto rewards, none of that is needed to continue searching in private.
A lot of people found value in having a monetary reward for searching, instead of Google monetizing your data (and others storing it), and digital assets were optimal versus fiat. Maybe we think that out as well, but most importantly its for punishing bad behavior for nodes.
edit: For results – At the moment I can’t speak for DDG’s engine (I’ll come back to you with some answers, but they’re no doubt findable) but our results right now are the least biased and assumptions. Again, some people like their internet service knowing and assuming everything about them to suggest some cool shoes. Others want a very direct answer based on their query, and without those queries and data being stored for entities to get into if they’re powerful enough.
And if you don’t want to be rewarded but still use the privacy and direct results that other engines don’t give, you don’t have to anything but search.
You’re next @overdrawn98901…
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Still here… still overdrawn next. 
Appreciate everyone, again. Will get to it.
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