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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 13

    Aral Balkan Retweeted

    The most worrying aspect about @DuckDuckGo is that they have venture capital. So they are going to exit. The only question that matters is “who will they be sold to?” Will it be Google, a Chinese consortium, or to the public (an IPO). It’s a stopgap for now. Also see @QwantCom https://twitter.com/ekaitz_zarraga/status/1006840804109897729 …

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      2. izzy  ☁️ 🗝️‏ @izzy_tcp Jun 13
        Replying to @aral @DuckDuckGo @QwantCom

        Wtbt @StartPageSearch?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 13
        Replying to @izzy_tcp @DuckDuckGo and

        Another possible stopgap but StartPage couldn’t exist if Google didn’t exist.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. izzy  ☁️ 🗝️‏ @izzy_tcp Jun 13
        Replying to @aral @DuckDuckGo and

        If you are talking about search results then Duck couldn't exist without Bing, Yahoo? Startpage has other funding sources like StartMail.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 13
        Replying to @izzy_tcp @DuckDuckGo and

        Am I mistaken in thinking the Duck has its own crawler/engine? (Will read up on it.)

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Brian Schildt‏ @brianschildt Jun 14
        Replying to @aral @izzy_tcp and

        YES!

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      7. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 14
        Replying to @brianschildt @izzy_tcp and

        Hey Brian, so is FindX the only search engine at the moment that does its own crawls? It would be good to be able to support/contribute to one (afaik FindX is closed source, right?) We should chat again soon.

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      8. Brian Schildt‏ @brianschildt Jun 14
        Replying to @aral @izzy_tcp and

        Hey Aral - We have our own crawler and index. Qwant also, afaik primarily indexing french. We are Open Source https://get.findx.com/open-source/  - but centralized - hasn't cracked that one yet, but we're working on the "decentralized ranking" feature - Would love to show it to you.

        0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      9. End of conversation
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      2. Comrade Rosie Williams‏ @Info_Aus Jun 13
        Replying to @aral @DuckDuckGo @QwantCom

        otoh, they don't track people so they won't have as much data to sell as other search engines

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Sven Slootweg‏ @joepie91 Jun 13
        Replying to @Info_Aus @aral and

        claim that they don't track people*

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      4. Legit Gamer‏ @PokemonGO599 Jun 13
        Replying to @joepie91 @Info_Aus and

        If they do, they would've gotten sued over a hundred times. I've read their entire privacy policy.

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      5. Sven Slootweg‏ @joepie91 Jun 13
        Replying to @PokemonGO599 @Info_Aus and

        That's... not how this works.

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