AltSearch: An Ethical Alternative Search
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Searx is a metasearch engine, and works pretty well for that purpose.
Org history, privacy policy, funding strategy? Your site also doesn't have a donation link, so are you just eating the cost? I'm also curious about indexing sources. DuckDuckGo isn't indexing its own results, so odds are fairly low that you are -- you must be pulling them from somewhere.
Looks nice if this is what it claims to be.
You knowingly ripped out the reference to the source code on the home page, but you're fairly obviously using it:
http://asciimoo.github.io/searx/user/public_instances.html
A random example of an actually ethical instance, that doesn't violate the AGPL:
That's a really weird decision to make, because speaking as just a HN reader, I'm not even remotely interested in using a random search engine with no information, community, or history, but Searx is a really interesting project that I didn't know about and that I would have been happy to learn about.
So I don't understand what the end-game is here. It would have been easier and more helpful to just link to Searx instead of trying to pass it off as something else, and a general Searx post probably would have gotten more upvotes as well.