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As sad as this is, if after a few years of trying their best they [0] weren't more compelling than a website that removes image backgrounds [1] (just a random p
by flyGuyOnTheSly 6y ago
As sad as this is, if after a few years of trying their best they [0] weren't more compelling than a website that removes image backgrounds [1] (just a random popular website I stumbled across the other day) then I hate to say it but they never had a chance to begin with.
I've seen obscure personal blogs with more traffic than they garnered.
I know they built a privacy first browser as well that probably had no affiliation whatsoever with alexa's data collection department, but if they were of any use at all they surely would have spilled over into non-privacy centric browsers.
Just look at duckduckgo [2]
tl;dr it wasn't covid that killed them off.
[0] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cliqz.com https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cliqz.com
[1] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/remove.bg https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/remove.bg
[2] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/duckduckgo.com https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/duckduckgo.com
- atombender 6y agoTo be fair, they only launched their Internet search engine a few months ago, and it's not out of beta. It appears that this was a pivot after trying many other things, including creating a new browser. They started out their search stuff with a browser extension. It's not a new company; they've been around since 2008.