Okeano – A search engine that cleans the ocean and respects your privacy

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Hi everybody!

I'm the developer and designer behind Okeano.

Okeano is a privacy-friendly search engine that aims to spend 80% of profits to purchase river interceptors from the Ocean Cleanup Project and deploy them to the most polluting rivers around the world.

We support domain blocklisting [1] natively (no need for browser extensions that just remove results from the page) and !waves (similar to DDG bangs).

Appreciate your support.

- David

[1] https://okeano.com/blocklist

[2] https://okeano.com/waves

Looks great! The domain blocklist is something I have longed for (goodbye Pinterest and w3schools).

I would love a dark mode.

Does this use Bing like DuckDuckGo?

Thank you!

It uses Bing as a backup and for most general search. We have our own index that focuses on specific communities, including HN.

Dark mode is definitely in the pipeline.

I appreciate those kinds of initiatives (Ecosia and the likes). At some point, I'll have a tough time sticking to a search engine :) In an article related to Ecosia, they said that even though the user didn't click on the ads, it still helped them to become more relevant to advertisers (and perhaps increase revenue?) Is this generally true for Okeano as well?

Hi. Thank you.

We don't serve ads yet, but when we do the answer is yes. More users give the search engine more leverage when negotiating with advertisers and also the networking effect is important. That is, even if you don't click on ads you probably will share the search engine with somebody else.

- David

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