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Distributed search engine. A distributed search engine is a search engine where there is no central server. Unlike traditional centralized search engines, work such as crawling, data mining, indexing, and query processing is distributed among several peers in a decentralized manner where there is no single point of control.
Searx ( / sɜːrks /; stylized as searX) is a free and open-source metasearch engine, [4] available under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, with the aim of protecting the privacy of its users. [5] [6] [7] To this end, Searx does not share users' IP addresses or search history with the search engines from which it gathers results.
Desktop search. ChaCha was founded with the intention to offer human-guided search from within a web browser and for the search engine to learn from the results provided by their freelancers. The system offered a chat on the left side of the page where users could chat with the guides and conclude their search.
metager .org. Launched. 1996. MetaGer is a metasearch engine focused on protecting users' privacy. Based in Germany , and hosted as a cooperation between the German NGO 'SUMA-EV - Association for Free Access to Knowledge' and the University of Hannover, [1] [2] [3] the system is built on 24 small-scale web crawlers under MetaGer's own control.
Starting mid-2023, Kagi Search lists Mojeek as one of the sources for its results. Key features. Mojeek is a crawler-based search engine that provides independent search results using its own index of web pages, rather than using results from other search engines. Mojeek also displays significantly more individual entries in its search results ...
Fireball is a search engine operated by Fireball Labs GmbH, based in Munich, Germany. Founded in 1996 [1], Fireball was once the leading search engine in Germany, but quickly declined after being taken over by Lycos Europe and the rise of Google. In 2016, Fireball was re-established as an independent company and relaunched.
Reddit. Steve Huffman (born 1983 or 1984), also known by his Reddit username spez ( / spɛz / ), is an American web developer and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Reddit, a social news and discussion website, which ranks in the top 20 websites in the world. [4] He also co-founded the airfare search engine website Hipmunk, which ...