What is Reddit's opinion of findx?

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You can turn off the customised search in Google. Though, it will still track you. So, if you want Google without tracking use StartPage. I love DDG but it's just Bing without tracking running on AWS. While DDG won't track you, Amazon might.

Now, the ideal option would be an open source search engine that doesn't track you and runs on its own hardware. That's where findx comes in. However, it's not as good as Google/StartPage or Bing/DuckDuckGo. Though, it is still in beta do that's understandable (remember how bad Bing used to be?). The more use findx gets, the faster it will improve.

Also, if you don't want results from Google or Yahoo/Bing, FindX has its own search algorithm (and if you don't like their results, they provide links to do the same search on DDG or SP).

And if you want an unbiased search engine with an algorithm that's open source use findx. Though, it's still in beta and not very good. The more it gets used the better it'll get, though.

New sites are found by finding links to them on other sites, or by users submitting them to us (https://www.findx.com/tools/submit-a-website).

Spammers are a challenge. We analyze links to pages, and we will refine this further so we can detect anomalies like sudden influx of new links. All our ranking vectors are scaled though, so going from e.g. 10000 to 20000 links will not have that big of an impact, and we do have quite a few different ranking factors. Getting them all right to rise to the top will be a challenge, but no doubt some will try. Hopefully the respect these algorithm gamers have for being penalized by Google will also help us.

We're not listed on a stock exchange, but who knows what the future will bring.

Findx. No, it's not for porn. It's an independent search engine. Unlike ddg, which really just uses yahoo and a couple of others, findx uses its own search engine, and since it's open-source, you pretty much know it's not secretly censoring anything or giving its partners preferential status in searches. Whereas google, or yahoo (and thus ddg), or bing, or yandex, could be secretly censoring things that they don't want you to see. Also it has bangs like ddg.

Why do you not respect the Robots.txt exclusion standard? It is seen here that you do not, unfortunately.

@lizMcintyre - The choice we can give people is an important thing. But if the results is just the same as on Google (StartPage), Bing/Yandex (DDG) and Yahoo (Oscobo) - we are still in the hands of the big Search engines - and SEO will mean the same, at least the non-profiled

The fear and mistrust we can call for when explaining how the big search engines monitor peoples behaviour, will make people want to use private search engines, but if no-one uses the big search engines - the Meta search engines mentioned in this article will not be worth using anyway....

I'm totally support the Privacy Agenda- we need more awareness, and we need search engines to choose from.

I need to mention I'm not unbiased since I work for Findx.com - the independent European search Engine. https://www.reddit.com/r/FindxOfficial/

We just released findx to public beta just a few weeks ago - feel free to give it a go.

Findx is an independent European Search Engine, focusing on private search. Findx has no affiliation with Google or bing. You can catch some more info in our subreddit

OK, thx, for taking the time. - The results looks the same as mine, which is the intention (apart from the ads) - it was the Indian version you mentioned that puzzled me most.

Reason; we don't have .in sites - However you might have experienced an ad for amazon.in - and I get it if that confused you, it did to me.

Regarding your ebay search, I'll take a note on that one. In short we don't know your location and therefor we don't target "local" results towards you at this moment.

Glad you found the exits !, and feel free to try our maps search, in private as well

We decided to keep focus ny now, read more about here, find the list of TLD's we exclude here

Barclays is not on the list, and I checked that we find it here

Well I really shouldn't care because I am not going to spell correctly all the time anyways. That said see for yourself: https://www.findx.com/search?q=peace+lily+flower+brown&type=web

First link is again general lily care and the second link is to a website serving that page as a 404.

• What actual improvements to the indexing algorithms have you made over Gigablast?
• Is your goal to provide alternative search or private/anonymous search?
• Since your primary market seems to be people who don't want to be the product, but also want everything to be free ... how do you plan to make money?

To be honest, it feels like a flashy version of AltaVista circa-1998.

The impression I get is that you created a front-end over ebay, YouTube, OpenStreetMaps and some stock image gallery. I can just browse those directly. What value are you really giving me over incognito mode today?

The maps are utterly worthless. If I wanted to know where Charing Cross was, the maps work great. If I want to find anything else by name or full address it's a complete failure.