ColinHayhurst

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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
All parties have supported and encouraged this bill. There have been a few individuals in each party willing to question it, and improve it, but they have been more or less ignored by all sides.
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
Having been involved in this directly for 3 years, as a search company CEO and based in the UK, I would say some (if not all) big tech companies were broadly supportive of this bill. It is almost certain that regulatory compliance will fall
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Online Safety Influencers(gov.uk)
2 points by ColinHayhurst 3y ago|0 comments
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
The <blanks> behind the pre-trial briefs redactions will tell a lot. Some here, more detail in this thread [0]. 1. Google’s <blank> with <blank> prevents <blank> from pre-setting a different, more private search engi
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
Congratulations on your latest steps forward. We empathise. Resourcefulness, the ultimate asset which sparks creativity.
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
Unless I've missed it and not found it, the silence from Apple (Safari), Google (Chrome) and Microsoft (Bing) is deafening. Do they actually welcome these measures? If not, two of them for sure will have lobbied behind closed doors, so
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
You missed out Mojeek. For an independent take: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
> Does anyone have any tips or tricks (or search engines I'm unfamiliar with) so I can break free? https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
Google depends on Adwords. Other revenue streams are minor in comparison. Chromium is the main moat. Android too, of course. ~$15 billion to Apple is another, so protecting all on mobile. With the demise of AICOA, we cannot hope or expect t
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
True, but to be fair leading the pack was first Element, with Session, Threema, Viber and Signal.
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Crawlers, search engines and generative AI companies(searchengineland.com)
2 points by ColinHayhurst 3y ago|0 comments
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Datasets as sociotechnical artifacts – The case of C4(knowingmachines.org)
1 points by ColinHayhurst 3y ago|0 comments
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
Google started becoming an answer engine from ~2015 with the introduction of "People Also Ask", and arguably earlier than that [0]. Mojeek.com is a (information retrieval) search engine, and we resist the temptation to also become
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
We have Adult Search option available for API customers. This will be rolled out on mojeek.com very soon.
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
I've been told, by a very credible source that would know, that the top level index is (only) 10 billion web pages.
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
Same. Perhaps for a search engine though my previous experiences in several ambitious startups is not so different. In our case it was 1 guy for a long time https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/03/to-track-or-not-to-track.
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
7 billion+ actually, and our investment level mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36517505
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
Congratulations Kagi. We beg to differ on the need to raise large sums. Like Kagi we are on a marathon not a sprint. We have built a no-tracking and completely independent crawler search engine and infrastructure from the ground-up having r
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
https://www.searchenginemap.com/
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
For alternatives to Google here is a graphical network of web search engines and proxies: https://www.searchenginemap.com/ (desktop display only)
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
Developing an independent search infrastructure takes considerable resources, so these prices are not necessarily expensive. We can confirm this, as Mojeek crawls, indexes and ranks independently of any other search engine. We also have an
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
Excuse the self-promotion but this can be done with Mojeek Focus [0]. This capability is also available through our search engine API. [0] https://www.mojeek.com/focus/
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
> the practice of capturing the search phrase in your browser sent to a competing search engine, and then noting the next visited page in your browser. This essentially captured the user's preferred link from your competitor's
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
OpenAI used Common Crawl for GPT-3. For GPT-4 they don't say anything.
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
> If people can build collectively incredibly useful resources like wikipedia and openstreetmap why not an index of the web as a public good that is devoid of the race to the bottom dynamics of SEO and adtech and whatnot. The size of a b
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by ColinHayhurst 3y ago
This is simply not true. I say this based on direct research, with users of our no-tracking search engine.
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
Data for the last four months suggests Google search market share share is up, whereas Bing search and proxies are down [0] We have seen noticeable and increased growth in usage of our "classic" search engine Mojeek in the same pe
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
“Don’t seem evil”
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
Fine words. “We want…” doing a lot of heavy lifting The problem is that “we want” is motivated not by human rights values but by the forces of capitalism.
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ChatGPT Reliance Considered Harmful(seirdy.one)
4 points by ColinHayhurst 4y ago|2 comments

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