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This seems like a press release. What's the difference from something like DuckDuckGo other than branding?

They seem to do the following according to their FAQ[1]:

- "We utilize the latest encryption technologies, including a feature known as Perfect Forward Secrecy which goes a step further than traditional SSL by using a unique public key for each individual session"

- "Even server logs are disabled to ensure that any identifiable information your browser may be broadcasting" with requests are never read or stored on our servers.

- "On top of all that we utilize an extra layer of query encryption at the client side in order to ensure that your history remains private from other users who may access your computer"

[1]: https://www.searchencrypt.com/about/faq

The first 2 features are pretty common in privacy-focused search engines.

The 3rd involves a closed-source browser extension doing who-knows-what... and who's it been audited by?

https://blog.searchencrypt.com/tech/search-encrypt-work/

This is more info on how we encrypt your searches.

duckduckgo is pretty great too. I use it probably 75% of the time

Came here to see if anyone had a reason to use it over DDG. DDG is pretty great and you can always add !g to your query to jump to Google if you really need to (and don't mind the data being shared with any government that asks, of course).

I've switched to DuckDuckGo a while ago but didn't know this feature, thanks! I for some reason had expected a lower quality but it's pretty effective as a search engine so I'm content.

If you're interested, there's a whole load of them: https://duckduckgo.com/bang

By far my favorite little feature, it speeds up my workflow a ton.

What makes you think that a site whose Alexa Ranking has jumped up from 2,993 to 1,814 in the last three months alone would need to issue press releases disguised as informative blog posts? This is a regular blog post about the 5 WAYS SEARCH ENCRYPT PROTECTS YOU.

Not OP, but maximizing continued growth on an upward trend are what makes me think "that a site whose Alexa Ranking has jumped up from 2,993 to 1,814 in the last three months alone would need to issue press releases disguised as informative blog posts."

Any marketer worth their salt would do this too. If you don't, you're wasting a golden opportunity.

The commenter you replied to was being very sarcastic.

There's also searx, which is self-hostable.

Pretty sure the concepts of self-hosting and indexing the modern internet are kinda mutually exclusive...

A distributed network of cooperating independent crawlers and indexers would be cool though.

There's a blockchain for that.

you might want to look at yacy for that.

https://yacy.net/en/index.html

how does it compare with bing for porn?

If you want to search "privately", Search Encrypt will allow you to do so. Bing, however, tracks users and links their searches to Microsoft accounts. We also have expiring browser history so anyone with access to your computer will not be able to see what you searched for.

We explained how this works in this post: https://blog.searchencrypt.com/tech/remove-search-encrypt-ex...

You didn't answer his question.

Can I preview the videos in the browser and get related videos when I click the link?

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