Proton Search Engine
Instead of using Google Chrome, Edge, or Opera. If you create your own web browser and Search Engine it would lead to better privacy and ease of mind for those against Big Corporations
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Overuse commented
There is DDG, Startpage, Brave Search and for browser Firefox, Brave, LibreWolf, Mullvad Browser and of course Tor Browser.
There is no need for Proton to do this. What we need is more people switching from Chrome, Edge and so on, to already awesome alternatives. Having Proton do their own Search Engine and/or Browser will just confuse more. A better Proton Drive and parity between all platforms is what Proton needs to focus on. -
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I don't understand all of the requests for Proton to create apps that already exist and don't relate to apps they already have. You want private search not based on any major search engines (except perhaps for some image searches for now) - Brave does that.
They have so many things to address already with their existing portfolio. Expansions should be thoughtful and make sense in their niche.
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privacyFirst commented
Creating a modern web browser and an independent search engine with its own spiders from scratch would be mammoth tasks in this day and age and, for a search engine, as well as requiring massive resources in terms of cache, storage, and so on. Well beyond Proton in terms of the financial resources that would be needed for either, I'm sure.
Besides, how many people would still be willing to pay for either a browser or a search engine? Even if there were 100 million Proton users willing to pay, that still would not raise enough anyway.
For a browser, at best you'd be looking at a fork or even a fork of a fork of an existing one. And nobody dare suggest Chromium! Basically you'd be looking at yet another Firefox fork, or perhaps a Waterfox - itself a fork off Firefox - one. Perhaps doable? But hardly a priority of any kind, given the number of privacy oriented browsers already out there, led by TOR browser.
For a search engine, it gets even more complicated. Yes, you could do a skeleton search engine interface, but you'd still have to go the same way as DuckDuckGo et al and get into bed with Big Bad G' or 'Big Bad Bing', one way of another paying for search results cache. It's a vexing problem, whichever way you look at it.
All that said, yes, it would be a nice idea though......
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J commented
We already have DuckDuckGo and Brave search as the main two privacy-focused search engines.
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Jake commented
Could Proton afford to acquire/merge with DuckDuckGo or Kagi?
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DanHolli commented
Search: DuckDuckGo
Desktop browsers : Brave (Chromium based) and Floorp (Firefox based)
Mobile browsers (android): Brave (Chromium based) and Iceraven or Mull (both Firefox based) -
keable1 commented
Proton Search is an excellent idea for privacy online.
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keable1 commented
Proton Search- a new privacy-focused search engine
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Rs commented
Kagi.com is superb.
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B0t Creati0n commented
u guys heard of brave or DuckDuckGO Browser?
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Ahmed commented
Add Search Proton a search engine by proton
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Geran commented
I’d love if you guys just bought something like Kagi. It would save me from having to subscribe to multiple privacy focused things.
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Lagable commented
I agree for a browser, but as a search engine, Qwant already exists, and Proton is actually a partner with them.
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Spatty commented
Until Proton creates a search engine, I use hardened Firefox and a VPN & Quad 9. Hopefully Protons search engine will have multiple levels of security built in.
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Tommy M commented
There are already a few private search engines, such as Brave, DuckDuckGo, and Startpage
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scramp commented
I've switched from DuckDuckGo to Kagi, which has been incredible. It was 50/50 whether I would need to use the !g bang when using DDG. I have not used it once since switching to Kagi.
+3 from me from a Proton made search engine — I'm already paying for another.
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Tommy commented
I 100% agree on that, but for now I am using duckduckgo.com instead of Google.com for all my SearchQueries.
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Draven “Xarcell” Vestatt commented
We already have a privacy browser & search called Brave. I'd rather see Proton build a Doc & Spreadsheet application.
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Romain commented
Guys, this is absolutly not doable. Developing an efficient search engine is mush harder than you seems to believe. Actually, believe it or not, but the fact that Google collects data makes it very effecient to provides pertinent search results.
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Gabriel commented
Use Brave for daily run. And TOr for sketchy stuff