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I love how there are now many little search engines trying to differentiate themselves from Google. A few others worth checking out are: 1. https://search.bra

I love how there are now many little search engines trying to differentiate themselves from Google. A few others worth checking out are: 1. https://search.brave.com https://search.brave.com (they use their own index / my personal favourite) 2. https://kagi.com https://kagi.com 3. https://neeva.com https://neeva.com

paulcole 4y ago
This Yep thing isn’t a search engine. It’s a content-marketing campaign for Ahrefs. They don’t want to compete with Google. They want press for themselves.
- Method-X 4y ago
  Those two goals are not mutually exclusive.
- Teandw 4y ago
  That shows you have a distinct lack of understanding of what Ahref's core business model is built upon. It's not a PR stunt and they don't want to directly compete with Google either. They want it for search data. They don't need to be anything near Google's size to make it worthwhile.
- ecommerceguy 4y ago
  AHREFS has 2 things going for it: 1. a freaking giant crawled index, 2. a freaking giant pile of metadata on google search rankings.
danskeren 4y ago
I'd like to throw mine into the mix (we're a non-profit that plans to donate 80% of our profits to other non-profit organizations and charities, but we need more traffic before Google will enable ads, so at the moment then we're ad-free and not generating any income to donate): https://ask.moe https://ask.moe
- hetspookjee 4y ago
  I want to suggest a different wording in the sentence where you say you’re a non-profit that donates 80% of the profits. How can a non-profit make profit to share? Don’t you mean the income?
- account42 4y ago
  Better would be to show no/less ads and encourage users to donate to charities directly. Helping commercial interests exploit users so that you can donate some of the profit from that is really inefficient.
- urthor 4y ago
  Ask.moe is the opposite of what consumers actually need. Consumers don't need another monetization model exploiting their web search. They need a distinct web index/crawler infrastructure that bypasses SEO.
jrussbowman 4y ago
If we're adding our own, https://www.unscatter.com https://www.unscatter.com is mine. It's focused on the news vertical rather than general search. It's not monetized but it's also only costing me less than $50 a month in hosting and cloudflare costs to support.
mas-ev 4y ago
you.com

paulcole 4y ago

This Yep thing isn’t a search engine. It’s a content-marketing campaign for Ahrefs. They don’t want to compete with Google. They want press for themselves.

Method-X 4y ago
Those two goals are not mutually exclusive.
Teandw 4y ago
That shows you have a distinct lack of understanding of what Ahref's core business model is built upon. It's not a PR stunt and they don't want to directly compete with Google either. They want it for search data. They don't need to be anything near Google's size to make it worthwhile.
ecommerceguy 4y ago
AHREFS has 2 things going for it: 1. a freaking giant crawled index, 2. a freaking giant pile of metadata on google search rankings.

danskeren 4y ago

I'd like to throw mine into the mix (we're a non-profit that plans to donate 80% of our profits to other non-profit organizations and charities, but we need more traffic before Google will enable ads, so at the moment then we're ad-free and not generating any income to donate): https://ask.moe https://ask.moe

hetspookjee 4y ago
I want to suggest a different wording in the sentence where you say you’re a non-profit that donates 80% of the profits. How can a non-profit make profit to share? Don’t you mean the income?
account42 4y ago
Better would be to show no/less ads and encourage users to donate to charities directly. Helping commercial interests exploit users so that you can donate some of the profit from that is really inefficient.
urthor 4y ago
Ask.moe is the opposite of what consumers actually need. Consumers don't need another monetization model exploiting their web search. They need a distinct web index/crawler infrastructure that bypasses SEO.

jrussbowman 4y ago

If we're adding our own, https://www.unscatter.com https://www.unscatter.com is mine. It's focused on the news vertical rather than general search. It's not monetized but it's also only costing me less than $50 a month in hosting and cloudflare costs to support.

mas-ev 4y ago

you.com