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  2. Gigablast - Wikipedia

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    Gigablast was an American free and open-source web search engine and directory. Founded in 2000, it was an independent engine and web crawler, [6] developed and maintained by Matt Wells, a former Infoseek employee and New Mexico Tech graduate. [7] During early April 2023, the website went offline without warning and without any official statement.

  3. Search engine privacy - Wikipedia

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    Google, founded in 1998, is the most widely used search engine, receiving billions and billions of search queries every month. [8] Google logs all search terms in a database along with the date and time of search, browser and operating system, IP address of user, the Google cookie, and the URL that shows the search engine and search query. [10]

  4. List of search engines - Wikipedia

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    Cross-platform open-source desktop search engine. Unmaintained since 2011-06-02 [9]. LGPL v2 [10] Terrier Search Engine: Linux, Mac OS X, Unix: Desktop search for Windows, Mac OS X (Tiger), Unix/Linux. MPL v1.1 [11] Tracker: Linux, Unix: Open-source desktop search tool for Unix/Linux GPL v2 [12] Tropes Zoom: Windows: Semantic Search Engine (no ...

  5. Startpage.com - Wikipedia

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    Startpage is a Dutch search engine company that highlights privacy as its distinguishing feature. [1] [2] [3] The website advertises that it allows users to obtain Bing Search and Google Search results while protecting users' privacy by not storing personal information or search data and removing all trackers. [4]

  6. Comparison of search engines - Wikipedia

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    The first table lists the company behind the engine, volume and ad support and identifies the nature of the software being used as free software or proprietary software. The second and third table lists internet privacy aspects along with other technical parameters, such as whether the engine provides personalization (alternatively viewed as a ...

  7. YaCy - Wikipedia

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    YaCy (pronounced “ya see”) is a free distributed search engine built on the principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, created by Michael Christen in 2003. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The engine is written in Java and distributed on several hundred computers, as of September 2006 [update] [ needs update ] , so-called YaCy-peers.

  8. Distributed search engine - Wikipedia

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    The goals of building a distributed search engine include: 1. to create an independent search engine powered by the community; 2. to make the search operation open and transparent by relying on open-source software; 3. to distribute the advertising revenue to node maintainers, which may help create more robust web infrastructure;

  9. Outline of search engines - Wikipedia

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    The search results are generally presented in a list of results often referred to as SERPS, or "search engine results pages". Audio search engine – web-based search engine which crawls the web for audio content. Collaborative search engine – emerging trend for Web search and Enterprise search within company intranets. CSEs let users concert ...