ColinHayhurst

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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
Price On Asking. I'll send you an email.
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
Have doubts about this tool but since you ask https://www.worldwidewebsize.com/ ~6.7 billion
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
are you seeing ours? https://www.mojeek.com/bot.html
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
I have an inkling you might be wrong there, but can't say why.
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
Mojeek Web Search API [0]. Fully independent crawler & index. Currently 6.6 billion pages. Pricing and terms bespoke. Self-disclosure: CEO. [0] https://www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
Promises should be questioned: https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-clips/recode-decode-srid... "we drop the last octet"
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
you are not alone, use of ours is up markedly since ChatGPT came out.
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
Embrace search diversity: https://blog.mojeek.com/2022/02/search-choices-enable-freedo... (self-disclosure: Mojeek CEO)
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
> Forcing platforms to actually follow their terms of service, however, is revolutionary Except the Bill doesn't have such provisions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33786707
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
Well put. "Forcing" and "to actually follow" are not a reflection of reality. The Bill details the rights to "kinds of complaints" and provisions to "bring a claim for breach of contract". Good luck w
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
The latest changes, of which there have been many iterations, are generally well-intentioned but biased to those who have the ear of Government. Child safety advocates, celebrities, age-verification providers, newspaper publishers and Big T
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
We are trying with a fully independent search engine from the ground-up. Unlike most we are also not a proxy for, or correlated to, Bing (Microsoft) and/or Google. Apple is actually the biggest problem - users cannot add us (Mojeek) or
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
It's a promising start and useful. Twitter not rendering in Firefox but OK in Chromium browsers tried. Search CEO BTW
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
Excuse the self-promotion but we have an independent crawler-index and so are one of very few genuine alternatives: https://www.mojeek.com/
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
FT columnist take: https://twitter.com/jemimajoanna/status/1584535305322827777 and government website: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-sets-out-plan-...
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Abuse prevention is tradecraft(alecmuffett.com)
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
Why odd? He falls as Deputy PM of 67m in the disUnited Kingdom, takes a payrise and more importantly rises to be Deputy Emperor of ~3bn in the World Wide Wall.
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
Yes, but let's not yet again confuse "search engine" with search service (proxy or metasearch if you prefer). I'm biased so will resist the temptation to say more and only point you to the comments which are currently at
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
Interesting. Wondered why results are displayed there as they are; the ones at the top look bad for Vivaldi, for example. Speaking of which Proton don't include Vivaldi. Perhaps as they have their own email client built right into thei
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
As advocates of search diversity we applaud you. We implemented similar as Search Choice buttons. And as options below the search box, like allsear.ch, if you turn on Search Choice bar: https://blog.mojeek.com/2022/02&#
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Also pleasantly surprised. Rebecca Slaughter used the term surveillance-economy previously when advocating for data minimization, saying that this "should mean that companies collect only the information necessary to provide consumers
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
> Companies should focus on data minimization, not maximization. Precisely
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
They are welcome too, but perhaps are restrained by their stakeholders. Looking at the suggestions in the blog, and for transparency - Mojeek CEO: > Stop trying to look like Google. Agreed. We and our users still believe that "10 bl
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
best comment
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
Mojeek | Search Engine | REMOTE, UK Preferred International Web Search Engine with No-Tracking. Independent crawler/indexer with our own servers, full tech stack, web search, API and search advertising. - Front End Developer - Full Sta
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
Thanks for the mention @boyter. Maybe we should write something like "Why Writing Your Own Search Engine to Index Billions of Pages is Hard". It would make interesting reading about challenges we have overcome. For us it's no
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
Mojeek | Search Engine | REMOTE, UK Preferred International Web Search Engine with No-Tracking. Independent crawler/indexer with our own servers, full tech stack, web search, API and search advertising. - Front End Developer - Full Sta
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Hard graft I will wager and almost always.
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The people who'll appreciate and tolerate your MVP, are a very small subset of your target market that have serious pains to address and/or substantial gains to be made. Unless you are solving your own problem, and have pains&#x2F
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by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
We applaud all these innovations and are glad to see what is being done with Kagi Lenses and Brave Goggles. The Web ecosystem and users need innovations in search. Our own innovation in this domain go back to 2005 and was called Personal Se

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