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- Private search engine that doesn't track your history http://startpage.com 3 comments privacy
- WorldBrain - The Research-Engine Open source Chrome extension for full text browsing history, bookmark, PDFs search! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/worldbrain-the-research-e/abkfbakhjpmblaafnpgjppbmioombali 3 comments chrome
- Do you know of a self hosted bookmark search engine (like Historious) https://historio.us 3 comments selfhosted
- Get a warrant: Tech companies ask lawmakers to rein in digital surveillance. Tech companies ask lawmakers to require a warrant for search engine histories https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/get-warrant-tech-companies-ask-lawmakers-rein-digital-surveillance-n1213336 5 comments politics
- [Firefox extension coming soon] WorldBrain - The Research-Engine: Extension for full text browsing history, bookmark, PDFs search! All data is stored locally & nothing leaves your computer. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/worldbrain-the-research-e/abkfbakhjpmblaafnpgjppbmioombali 3 comments firefox
- DuckDuckGo Search Engine marks a new history with 100 Million searches per day https://www.techbard.in/2021/01/duckduckgo-privacy-browser-marks-new-history-with-100-million-searches-per-day.html 11 comments duckduckgo
- WorldBrain Research-Engine is an open source extension it lets the user full-text search of all the web pages in user browsing history, bookmarks in your browser and PDFs user ever visited, Plus all data is stored locally & nothing ever leaves your computer https://github.com/worldbrain/research-engine/ 10 comments webdev
- Bing search engine can predict, with very low false positive rates, people who may have pancreatic cancer based only on their search history. http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2017/06/06/gerd-gigerenzer-can-search-engine-data-save-lives-from-pancreatic-cancer/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork 23 comments science
- Study about search engines & elections: “What we’re talking about here is a means of mind control on a massive scale that there is no precedent for in human history.” [...] "Specifically, we show that biased search rankings can shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by 20% or more." http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2015/08/internet-search-engines-may-be-influencing-elections 3 comments politics
- Study about search engines & elections: “What we’re talking about here is a means of mind control on a massive scale that there is no precedent for in human history.” [...] "Specifically, we show that biased search rankings can shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by 20% or more." http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2015/08/internet-search-engines-may-be-influencing-elections 24 comments technology
- Wikipedia chief enters internet censorship row: Private search engines such as Google should not be left in charge of "censoring history", the Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, has said, after the internet company revealed it had approved half of more than 90,000 "right to be forgotten" requests. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/25/right-to-be-forgotten-google-wikipedia-jimmy-wales 57 comments worldnews