On March 26, Ixquick will merge with StartPage search engine.

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On March 26, Ixquick will merge with StartPage search engine. Anonymous 03/16/16 (Wed) 19:41:33 No.544574

Its this good, or bad? Wasnt Startpage the compromised one?

If bad, then what search-engine should I use now?

Anonymous 03/16/16 (Wed) 19:46:10 No.544579

If they really cared about fighting big brother, they would release the source code. Just use searx, it's like startpage/Ixquick, but libre.

Anonymous 03/16/16 (Wed) 19:48:03 No.544582

>>544579

Are you talking about this one?

https://www.searx.me/

Anonymous 03/16/16 (Wed) 19:49:01 No.544583

>>544582

Yeah, I'm talking about that one.

Source code is on github

https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

Anonymous 03/16/16 (Wed) 20:31:11 No.544596

They are the same search engine why does it matter?

Anonymous 03/16/16 (Wed) 21:42:05 No.544628

>>544574

Use astalavista. It's what all the cool kids are using.

Anonymous 03/16/16 (Wed) 21:59:54 No.544631

>>544583

>implying you can verify that the server is running the same code as what's on github

>>544596

they aren't, startpage is google proxy, ixquick is every other search engine minus google combined proxy.

Anonymous 03/16/16 (Wed) 22:17:20 No.544636

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>>544631

>implying you can verify that the server is running the same code as what's on github

This. Its pointless for a web service to open source its code for the sake of transparency when they can't prove thats the code they're running

Anonymous 03/16/16 (Wed) 23:19:15 No.544686

Startpage don't work with many datacenters used by VPNs. It asks for captcha-input, but just returns you to a new captcha.

Over and over and over again.

Valuing privacy :^)

Anonymous 03/17/16 (Thu) 00:20:29 No.544725

Startpage pays Google for access to search results, so if you use it you are still supporting Google. This underscores the need to support truly independent alternatives like DDG and Yacy.

Anonymous 03/17/16 (Thu) 01:09:43 No.544767

>>544579

>>544582

>>544583

Its also worse. The results are all over the place (unoptimized) and it looks like someone threw up all over the page.

The clarion call of all FLOSS software.

Anonymous 03/17/16 (Thu) 13:09:40 No.545049

>>544574

>Its this good, or bad? Wasnt Startpage the compromised one?

Ixquick was a meta engine with multiple sources that weren't Google, Startpage was just a Google proxy, the latter also became hugely popular after Snowden, while the former stayed ignored. There's really no reason for them to be separate projects, considering they're made by the same people. Also, as >>544579 said, Searx is better in every possible way.

Anonymous 03/17/16 (Thu) 14:21:44 No.545070

>>544636

You're free to run an instance of searx on your own server to guarantee it's the same souce code.

Anonymous 03/17/16 (Thu) 17:04:42 No.545147

>>544631

>Promising privacy and security by using word play and not publishing the code

>Promising privacy and security by publishing the code openly without word play

Startpage does only one of these and its not code.