I knew the search engine existed, but I forgot about it.
Some here may not be aware of it, so I’m just being informative.
Have you tried Resulthunter.com?
I’ve only been using for a week. I like it better than previous search engines.
Both are clean and simple with no clutter...
Did this use to be Ask Jeeves from wayback?
What would be a good test to evaluate these search engines?
I just tried it, and while I like the search results it is Google. In fact it has all the Google tracking scripts.
If you want Google without the tracking and with a proxy, when needed, Startpage is for you.
Otherwise, I use Brave search.
I use Brave for youtube viewing. It completely blocks their annoying commercials and ads.
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Careful! Building a search engine is massively expensive, so most of these “independent” engines are just shells for Bing, Yahoo, maybe even Google itself. DuckDuckGo is just the most visible of this genre.
Brave and Yandex are both good in terms of not being corrupted nearly as much as others by Big Tech.
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Oldie but goodie?
https://www.quora.com/Who-owns-Ask-com?share=1
Ask.com is part of InterActive Corp. (Nasdaq: IACI), which currently (8/8/11) carries a valuation of $3 billion. About half of the company’s $1.6 billion in revenues for the 2010 fiscal year came from the Search business, aka Ask.com. Because this company has been associated/created/pieced together/partly owned by the geniuses that are Barry Diller and Liberty Media, it’s a bunch of stuff jammed together, including a lot of dating sites (primarily match.com), something called Service Magic (that matches people with providers of services), and a mish-mash group that includes everything from Evite to the Daily Beast.
This melange of internet properties is managed through some central corporate operations that becomes a cost center to everything, so it’s hard to say how much of the operating income total is really generated by Ask.com but it’s something on the order of half the “positive portion” of the cash generated by the company. (The way they report financials, the corporate unit seems to generate a suite of losses that every other business unit’s “profits” need to cover.) In a convoluted way, the answer is “a bit under half of InterActive Corp. or about $1.5 billon.”
I would do a comparable valuation analysis but for the fact that Yahoo is currently valued at something approaching zero after you back out its ownership in various Chinese properties (which doesn’t really make sense, but the market is what it is). There is no relevant pure play comparable I could find and I’m not sure that a comparative valuation analysis would really answer the question anyway.
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Peruse later. I started netting before Google came out. My work friends all planned to buy stock when it was offered. Unfortunately, I was the only parent and too poor.