This is how Private Search [1] works since it decouples the search from the user. This means nobody knows both who searched and what they searched for. This is a huge leap for privacy in search.
Looks like your comment here caused enough curiosity to take the service down.
Tried it but it just says: "Something went wrong. Please try again."
same here
It should be working now! Thanks for the heads up. There was a traffic issue.
Is it a proxy to other search engines or are they building their own?
It's a multi part partnership with Gigablast. Gigablast sees the searches, but not who searches. Private.sh sees who searches, but not what they search for.
and i work with rasengan on private.sh so yes there's some issue there. one of the back end servers is returning a max capacity error of sorts... we are checking into it.