[email protected] wrote:
Looking at the paragraph right above that one, it says:
> It provides basic privacy by mixing your queries with searches on
other platforms without storing search data. Queries are made using a
POST request on every browser (except chrome*). Therefore they show up
in neither our logs, nor your url history.
Right, but that doesn't address anything substantively so it doesn't
answer anything at all.
That's just a description of what any service has to do ("mixing your
queries") with an unverifiable claim of privacy ("without storing search
data"). All services have to keep some track of who made which query in
order to get them the right results back (we don't want people asking
for cat pictures to get non-cat pictures back). Either the user's
computer does this on their computer alone (which isn't feasible given
the size of the DB needed to do this search in a thoroughgoing way) or
the user submits the query to another computer (which makes it SASS with
the privacy-busting that goes with all SASS).
As for other info, it doesn't seem to say. However, considering that it
focuses on privacy, and unlike similar services (cough cough DuckDuckGo)
it's free software, I'm going to trust it and most likely use it in
close future.
Startpage/Ixquick are not foreseeably worse metasearch engines, and
being free software SASS doesn't mean anything for the end user because
one doesn't do the entire job on one's own computer.
