From 37d7f6adbac711779c168343875991b987b3556b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rohan Kumar Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2021 18:56:23 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Petal uses 3p indexes in certain jurisdictions --- content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi | 2 +- content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md | 12 ++++++------ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi b/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi index ad7fdae..076e658 100644 --- a/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi +++ b/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ These are large engines that pass all the above tests and more. 4. Mojeek: Claims to be privacy-oriented. Quality isn’t at Google/Bing/Yandex’s level, but it’s not bad either. If I had to use Mojeek as my default general search engine, I’d live. Partially powers eTools.ch. -5. Petal search: gopetal.com and petalsearch.com. A search engine by Huawei that recently switched from searching for Android apps to general search. Despite its surprisingly good results, I wouldn't recommend it due to privacy concerns. Requires an account to submit sites. I discovered this via my access logs. +5. Petal search: gopetal.com and petalsearch.com. A search engine by Huawei that recently switched from searching for Android apps to general search. Despite its surprisingly good results, I wouldn't recommend it due to privacy concerns. Requires an account to submit sites. I discovered this via my access logs. Be aware that in some jurisdictions, it doesn't use its own index: in Russia and some EU regions it uses Yandex and Qwant, respectively. => https://www.gopetal.com/ gopetal.com => https://petalsearch.com/ petalsearch.com diff --git a/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md b/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md index 8ca95d9..20e7cef 100644 --- a/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md +++ b/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md @@ -1,12 +1,11 @@ --- date: "2021-03-10T12:51:06-08:00" -description: "A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines - I have been able to find." +description: "A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find." outputs: - - html - - gemtext + - html + - gemtext tags: - - web + - web footnote_heading: Notes title: A look at search engines with their own indexes --- @@ -82,7 +81,7 @@ These are large engines that pass all the above tests and more. - Epic Search (went paid-only as of June 2021) - Occasionally powers DuckDuckGo's link results instead of Bing. - Mojeek: Claims to be privacy-oriented. Quality isn’t at Google/Bing/Yandex’s level, but it’s not bad either. If I had to use Mojeek as my default general search engine, I’d live. Partially powers [eTools.ch](https://www.etools.ch/). -- Petal search: [gopetal.com](https://www.gopetal.com/) and [petalsearch.com](https://petalsearch.com/). A search engine by Huawei that recently switched from searching for Android apps to general search. Despite its surprisingly good results, I wouldn't recommend it due to privacy concerns. Requires an account to submit sites. I discovered this via my access logs. +- Petal search: [gopetal.com](https://www.gopetal.com/) and [petalsearch.com](https://petalsearch.com/). A search engine by Huawei that recently switched from searching for Android apps to general search. Despite its surprisingly good results, I wouldn't recommend it due to privacy concerns. Requires an account to submit sites. I discovered this via my access logs. Be aware that in some jurisdictions, it doesn't use its own index: in Russia and some EU regions it uses Yandex and Qwant, respectively. ### Smaller indexes, relevant results @@ -210,3 +209,4 @@ Matt from Gigablast also gave me some helpful information on GBY which I include [^10]: More information can be found in [this HN subthread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27593801) and some posts on the Cliqz tech blog ([one](https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-06/building-a-search-engine-from-scratch.html), [two](https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-10/search-quality-at-cliqz.html)). +