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I have every sympathy with ProtonMail. Google's behaviour in this certainly looks highly suspect. However, in general, I am not a fan of regulation. I wonder i
by SagelyGuru 10y ago
I have every sympathy with ProtonMail. Google's behaviour in this certainly looks highly suspect.
However, in general, I am not a fan of regulation. I wonder if this problem could not be better fixed by an open source search engine "assistant" that simply polls several existing (competing) search engines? Perhaps implemented as a browser plugin?
I base this suggestion on the assumption that not all the usual search engine providers will have the same conflicts of interest. More specifically, in this case, they are not all email providers themselves. For the same reason I trust more the search engine providers who have not added to it all kinds of other business interests.
Any thoughts on that? Has anyone tried it?
- gnud 10y agoWhat search engines are not email providers?
- SagelyGuru 10y agoDuckDuckGo?
- Nullabillity 10y agoDDG mostly relies on the APIs of other search vendors, who do have email services.
- rvern 10y agoQwant does its own crawling and does not provide email.[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant
- wiml 10y agoThere were a good many of those in the early '00s before Google rose to dominance. Either integrated into the browser or "meta-search engines" which simply merged the results from a number of other search engines.
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- rvern 10y agoYes, it has been done.[1] The searx metasearch engine[2] is exactly what you are describing; one of the public instances you can use is https://searx.me/ https://searx.me/. It can be run locally, though unless Tor is used that negates the privacy benefits. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#Metasearch_engines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#Metasea... [2]: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx https://github.com/asciimoo/searx