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pyre on July 5, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Distributed Everything

StartPage.com may have better search results because it's based on Google's search data, but it suffers from the same core issue as DDG. Instead of being based off of [Yahoo!'s Search Data][1], it's based off of Google's search data. Effort would be better spent working on a true alternative, rather than just a wrapper.

[1]: http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/

qznc on July 5, 2013 [–]

There is Yacy for example. A p2p search project.

Interesting effect: Use Yacy as your web proxy and it indexes everything (non-SSL) you visit. Better history search than any browser offers you.

http://yacy.net

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