The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #143615   Message #3323042
Posted By: GUEST
15-Mar-12 - 12:45 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Search Engine of the month
Subject: RE: Tech: Search Engine of the month
If this is legit I'm all for it, but this search engine may not be what they say it is. I note that there are some odd claims such as using Alpha SSL. Does anybody know what that is? I would expect an entity that operates a search engine to be both clear and knowledgeable about the technology and not bluff. It may be worth looking into what they're up to.

Some internet searching will show that the owner is apparently in deep financial trouble, but seemingly supported by a rich dad. He's only registered the domain name for 1 year and has 6 months left. He is using shared hosting and shares the same IP with 10 other web sites. All this is information can be found by doing a whois and following up on the addresses given there. Of course this is not exactly incriminating information, but it does make this look less than legitimate and perhaps not be a stellar choice for searches. If I was using a possibly insecure computer, I'd be careful.

As for secure browsing, I can't vouch for duckduckgo.com nor ixquick.com, but I use them both extensively and they have at least been around for long enough to be vetted by public use. My personal opinion is also to keep Google use to a minimum so as not to encourage their dominance even more, but for those that want to keep them from passing your information on to the next site, it is possible to use SSH which Google now supports. Simply add the "s" like this: https://www.google.com/ That will prevent getting those crazy and useless pages with your search term plugged in.