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YaCy mentions (71)

• New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

  YaCy might fit your bill: https://yacy.net/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• New 60% of OpenAI model's responses contain plagiarism

  It turns out you can make it all the way to become president of Harvard [1] while ignoring this rule so it is questionable whether it is as set in stone as you make it out to be, at least in certain disciplines. In a way these models are a perfect mirror of the current academic climate. They plagiarise without remorse, they follow the latest identity-politics diktat to a point and make up 'facts' when needed to... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Ask HN: Could we just re-invent original Google?

  Here you go: distributed, peer-to-peer, FLOSS search engine: https://yacy.net. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf]

  > Now I just need some kind of open source search engine to run on it ... Here you go: https://yacy.net. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Welcome to mwmbl, the free, open-source and non-profit search engine

  I remember https://yacy.net/ but the big problem of this project was java and had not implementations in others languages. I mean it as imagine torrent was only in perl. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

Ecosia mentions (53)

• Concept of Anyfund: Gratitude Funds for Charity

  Another possibility for Anyfund could be to allocate its funds exclusively for charitable purposes. Maybe we could have 100% eco-friendly Anytype merch? Imagine the fascination of observing community-driven charitable endeavors and sustainable initiatives, reflecting our commitment to a nurturing & open future. This could be inspired by the "noble" apps, of which I've personally used Ecosia, where the act of using... Source: 11 months ago

• Why Firefox doesn't launch their own Private search engine ?

  - Ecosia - A search engine that uses 80% of its profits from ad revenue to support tree-planting projects. They publish their finances on a monthly basis - https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-financial-reports-tree-planting-receipts/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Tulsa Earth Day Celebration at the Guthrie Green (Friday-Sunday)

  I literally just copy and pasted this information, but I for one am excited about Earth Day; I look forward to it every year. Also, since we're on this topic, ecosia.org is a search engine that plants trees with the ad revenue they generate (they're a carbon negative company!). Source: about 1 year ago

• Is this censorship or is the site just broken?

  If you go to ecosia.org or qwant.com on any mobile browser (Safari, Chrome, etc.,.) and search for ghandi you also get no results. Its only when the search query ends in ghandi, for example "ghanid date of birth" returns results fine. Source: about 1 year ago

• Microsoft is making it easier to block annoying autoplay videos in Edge

  DDG was caught allowing Microsoft/Bing trackers through a deal with Microsoft, use Startpage or Ecosia instead. Source: about 1 year ago