[HN Gopher] Anonymous Search Engine
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       Anonymous Search Engine
        
       Author : TomZero
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2022-08-15 18:31 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.tuxdex.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.tuxdex.com)
        
       | SahAssar wrote:
       | > Your search queries and the results are encrypted
       | 
       | Does this just mean that it uses SSL/TLS?
       | 
       | > the query is not visible in the address bar.
       | 
       | Why would this be a privacy gain?
        
         | bluenotebo0k wrote:
         | WRT the query not in the address bar - this is probably because
         | then something like tuxdex.com/?terms="embarrassing search"
         | doesn't show up in history or suggestions.
        
       | tildef wrote:
       | Cool to see a new general purpose search engine with its own
       | crawler! I tried a couple of queries and it worked fine for me.
       | Searching for for inetdex (https://www.tuxdex.com/?q=inetdex)
       | returns 1,442 documents that apparently just reflect the
       | crawler's user agent though. Might need some tuning. Can you
       | (assuming OP is affiliated with the site) say something about the
       | team and business model, if any? Would also be interesting to
       | hear about what infrastructure you're running on and if there's
       | any plans to open source the crawler.
       | 
       | I really like the minimal/90s look and feel too--keep up the good
       | work, assuming it's not a honeypot! :^)
        
       | rasengan wrote:
       | You could also try https://private.sh which anonymizes your
       | connection by using a two party system [1].
       | 
       | [1] https://private.sh/how-it-works.html
        
       | encryptluks2 wrote:
       | Is this open source, and if not how do they prove anonymity?
        
         | onlyrealcuzzo wrote:
         | Also - how are you going to block bots without being anti-user
         | also without some sort of tracking?
         | 
         | You could easily get 100 not requests for every 1 user request.
        
       | gravitate wrote:
       | Hangs when I search for this:
       | https://www.tuxdex.com/?q=*.*
        
       | TomZero wrote:
       | The search queries and the results are encrypted and the query is
       | not visible in the address bar.
        
         | gravitate wrote:
         | You can append queries with `q`
         | 
         | https://www.tuxdex.com/?q=query
        
       | ignite wrote:
       | Doesn't do spelling correction.
       | 
       | Not as good as google at figuring out which terms are important.
       | lucene explain api
       | 
       | weights API heavily, and doesn't return reasonable answers. For
       | google, it's the first hit.
        
       | greenail wrote:
       | Results for the query: how+does+tuxdeo+make+money Instead of: how
       | does tuxdex make money Result page: 1 0 Documents found in 0.27
       | seconds
        
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