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Re:Searx – A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine by aantix on Monday July 25, 2016 @10:44AM (#12159021)
It's interesting, if their claim of " while not storing information about its users" is totally true, I guess request limits would be impossible without at least tracking the originating IP?
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Re:Searx – A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine by JD557 on Monday July 25, 2016 @12:12PM (#12159629)
They could limit requests by IP without storing them explicitly.

They could use something like a count-min sketch to store how many requests a certain IP has executed, and clean the sketch every minute, for example.

The limit would not be exact, though.

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Re:Searx – A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine by epchong on Monday July 25, 2016 @10:46AM (#12159033)
It does not seem to be limiting incoming requests by IPs. So IPs does not need to be stored anywhere.
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