Privacy Search Engines Aim to Challenge Google (DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Qwant, Swisscows, Unbubble, Searx)
From the Associated Press:
In the battle for online privacy, U.S. search giant Google is a Goliath facing a handful of European Davids.
The backlash over Big Tech’s collection of personal data offers new hope to a number of little-known search engines that promise to protect user privacy.
Sites like Britain’s Mojeek , France’s Qwant , Unbubble in Germany and Swisscows don’t track user data, filter results or show “behavioral” ads.
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Outside Europe, there’s also U.S. site DuckDuckGo.
Some privacy search operators say it’s equally important to help users avoid “filter bubbles,” in which content is pre-selected by the likes of Google and Facebook based on previous searches and other data.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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