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AltSearch: An Ethical Alternative Search
- gclawes 7y agoThere is absolutely no information about this on the site.
- xushuang 7y agohey guy,this is a non-profit,no ads,privacy-conscious search engine
- pmoriarty 7y agoHow does it differ from Duck Duck Go?
- xushuang 7y agowe are non-profit
- danShumway 7y agoAny other information? Does the non-profit company have a name? Org history, privacy policy, funding strategy? Your site also doesn't have a donation link, so are you just eating the cost? I'm also curious about indexing sources. DuckDuckGo isn't indexing its own results, so odds are fairly low that you are -- you must be pulling them from somewhere.
- api 7y agoWho runs this? The search is decent and that is non-trivial to implement. Looks nice if this is what it claims to be.
- kick 7y agoIt's a Searx instance, and this person is violating the AGPL.
- xushuang 7y agoRumor
- kick 7y agoFact. You knowingly ripped out the reference to the source code on the home page, but you're fairly obviously using it: http://asciimoo.github.io/searx/user/public_instances.html http://asciimoo.github.io/searx/user/public_instances.html A random example of an actually ethical instance, that doesn't violate the AGPL: https://searx.tuxcloud.net/ https://searx.tuxcloud.net/
- danShumway 7y agoWow, you're right. This is very, very clearly just Searx with some text and logo changes. That's a really weird decision to make, because speaking as just a HN reader, I'm not even remotely interested in using a random search engine with no information, community, or history, but Searx is a really interesting project that I didn't know about and that I would have been happy to learn about. So I don't understand what the end-game is here. It would have been easier and more helpful to just link to Searx instead of trying to pass it off as something else, and a general Searx post probably would have gotten more upvotes as well.
- xushuang 7y agosee https://altsearch.org/about https://altsearch.org/about
- kick 7y agoYou just added that subheading; I checked it before making this comment, and it still doesn't comply with the AGPL.
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- kick 7y agoThis is a searx instance that violates the AGPL. You all should find an instance that doesn't! If you can't trust them to adhere to the basic terms of a software license, you can't trust them to keep your searches safe. Searx is a metasearch engine, and works pretty well for that purpose. http://asciimoo.github.io/searx/user/public_instances.html http://asciimoo.github.io/searx/user/public_instances.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx