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by chris_f 6y ago
Another refreshing site is Craigslist: https://themarkup.org/blacklight/?url=craigslist.org
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Blacklight – A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector(themarkup.org)
207 points by chris_f 6y ago|101 comments
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Google and data brokers accused of illegally collecting people’s data: report(politico.eu)
38 points by chris_f 6y ago|0 comments
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by chris_f 6y ago
Also interesting is that the Bing API TOS [0] has the below line that prevents users from using any other display advertising not provided by Microsoft: "Display advertising that is not provided by Microsoft on any page that displays a
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by chris_f 6y ago
Runnaroo does have a date restriction similar to DDG, it's just in a different place. See the arrow in the below: https://imgur.com/sY4qi63 Always room for improvement with it though.
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by chris_f 6y ago
Three current ways: 1. Server rendered ads. They were there, you must have just missed them (it's on the SERP under the search bar). I don't have the search volume for context based ads (and none of the the available search ad net
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by chris_f 6y ago
Since DDG also sources their organic results from Bing, I wouldn't be surprised if there was also a contractual obligation that required DDG to use Bing ads to reduce the cost they pay for the search results. Over the last few months I
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by chris_f 6y ago
Or better than StartPage, try Runnaroo. Organic results are also derived from Google. Search quality is subjective, but in this case I mean better because it respects your search terms, quotes work for phrases, and organic results are enhan
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by chris_f 6y ago
FB may already be backing their way into search: https://www.engadget.com/facebook-test-adds-wikipedia-search...
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Grant for the Web awards Distributed Media Lab $2M to develop new revenue models(grantfortheweb.org)
1 points by chris_f 6y ago|0 comments
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A bug in Joe Biden’s campaign app gave anyone access to millions of voter files(techcrunch.com)
14 points by chris_f 6y ago|5 comments
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Mozilla research: Browsing histories are unique enough to identify users(zdnet.com)
238 points by chris_f 6y ago|125 comments
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by chris_f 6y ago
As the creator of the upstart search engine on that list (Runnaroo), I do try to differentiate it from the the search providers, but there is a risk of being too different from what people expect. Take a look at the below search [0], it is
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by chris_f 6y ago
>Is it ok to get Google results like that? It is. We integrate the Google results through their web search API, and comply with their usage terms of service (as we do with all the data partners we integrate).
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by chris_f 6y ago
I'm the creator of Runnaroo. Thank you so much for the kind words! It made my day. I was having the same experience where I kept having to fall back to Google, so this was a very much a "scratch your own itch" project.
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by chris_f 6y ago
>Any idea why Runnaroo gives you better results than DDG? It doesn't seem to have better data sources. Not necessarily better data sources, but different data sources and a slightly different approach. For organic results, the big
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by chris_f 6y ago
>Google shows me shopping results for 195 50/16 car tires, the right size for my car That's actually a really interesting example. The tire sizes for a 2020 Honda Insight EX are either 215/55/16 or 215/50&#x2F
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by chris_f 6y ago
>It may be because they don't have a profile on me, but they have years of data on him..." That might be true, but I'm not sure. Outside of local searching I am skeptical of the benefits of filter bubbling. I think it
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by chris_f 6y ago
I came across the Web Monetization standard a couple months ago when I was looking for alternative ways to fund my website [0], but I couldn't find a lot of information on actual implementations, so I decided to add it myself as an exp
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by chris_f 6y ago
>...though your site would need a reasonable amount of traffic Any insight on what a reasonable amount of traffic amounts to based on your experience?
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by chris_f 6y ago
That is great! It's like a search engine blast from the past. Also interesting, related:bing.com gives me no results.
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by chris_f 6y ago
That is correct. AND is added by default and is never necessary in Google. It's a little confusing because fo how Google implemented some of the operators. The boolean + operator in many cases is used in the same way as AND, but Google
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by chris_f 6y ago
A few corrections: The + (formerly used to force a term to be present in the result) and ~ (also find synonyms) operators have been deprecated. Google now advises to wrap the word in quotes instead of using the +. Google will also automatic
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by chris_f 6y ago
>Sounds like a win-win to me. Yeah, I agree. The challenging is finding the relevant companies who wish to advertise and the ad 'sales' process. It's significantly more work than just plugging in an existing ad network
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by chris_f 6y ago
I've spent a lot of time over the last few months looking at different privacy focused forms of monetization, specifically aimed at search engines because of my use case. [0] The main factor determining your options is whether you are
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by chris_f 6y ago
Awesome, and thank you! I'm the creator of Runnaroo. I've actually been surprised at how willing people have been to switch default search engines. Right now I believe it is mostly early adopters and tech focused people (like he
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by chris_f 6y ago
I'm the author of the linked article. My biggest surprise over the last few months has been that it is a bigger challenge to try to figure out a better was to monetize a new search engine than to actually getting people to switch to it
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Thoughts on monetizing a privacy focused search engine(coil.com)
3 points by chris_f 6y ago|1 comments
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by chris_f 6y ago
Congrats on the launch! Looks very clean. There is an unexpected behavior if I search "New York NY". The search box just shows "New York" on the results page. Is that deliberate? Example: https://newsandrumor
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Privacy and Search Engine Monetization(coil.com)
1 points by chris_f 6y ago|0 comments

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