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ivyabcon Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users

We think the quality of their crawled pages (both web and news) is not as good as ours. Our total dataset is larger than their monthly numbers.

ivyabcon Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users

By the way, thanks for your feedback. We have fixed a bug and now news stories are shown on the page.

https://rightdao.com/search?q=Salesforce+Hyperforce

ivyabcon Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users

From Wikipedia: Dao is a Chinese word signifying the "way", "path", "route", "road"... In most belief systems, the word is used symbolically in its sense of 'way' as the 'right' or 'proper' way of existence...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao

ivyabcon Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users

Thanks! We have created our Twitter page. https://twitter.com/RightDao

ivyabcon Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users

Our results are different from other search engines. Wikipedia has regular database dumps (https://dumps.wikimedia.org/), which is a relatively low cost to index. Overall, our scale is currently small and the cost is manageable.

ivyabcon Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users

Currently our scale is small and the cost is manageable. Please send your site to the email address in the about us page. (We don't have incremental indexing yet, so we have to replace the entire index with newer results once a while.)

ivyabcon Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users

We don't have incremental indexing yet, so we have to replace the entire index with newer results once a while. Incremental index is on our roadmap.

However, our news search is updated every hour, and Salesforce Hyperforce has new results.

https://rightdao.com/search?q=Salesforce+Hyperforce&type=new...

ivyabcon Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users

No, we use Kubernetes, grpc and protobuf as base, Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring. Our systems are mostly in C++, with some in Go such as crawler. No open source tool is used for indexing and search.

ivyabcon Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users

We have our own crawler and indexing.

ivyabcon Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users

Currently our scale is small and the cost is manageable. We are not funded by venture capitals or governments.

ivyabcon Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users

(Disclaimer: Self Promotion)

Today, Google accounted for 92% of all Internet searches. Google and Bing together occupy 96% of the search market. Most other search engines, including the popular privacy focused ones, simply get the search results from Google or Bing and reorder them, because developing a search engine is neither easy nor cost effective. Consequently, the few big tech companies control what people see.

Right Dao is different. We are a fully independent search engine, and we have the infrastructure and build the technology from the ground up. That enable us to show the search results free from search engine monopoly's manipulations.

We invite you to have a try, while we are constantly improving the quality and adding more features.

https://rightdao.com

FAQ: open source?

We think search engine's code is a bit sensitive in general. The engine depends on many subsystems, including storage, scheduling, indexing, etc. If the ranking code is seen by the spammers, they could push their spam websites. We are not sure if there's a viable way to open source a search engine.