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Re:Searx – A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine by devoply on Thursday December 15, 2016 @09:37AM (#13184789)
One really useful feature would be the ability to submit all the links you visit to this directly via a browser extension and be able to search those links. That would be very useful. Plus a bookmarking feature. BTW does it support Altavista, WebCrawler, HotBot, or Lycos :)
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Re:Searx – A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine by verandaguy on Thursday December 15, 2016 @10:26AM (#13185160) 

     BTW does it support Altavista, WebCrawler, HotBot, or Lycos
I haven't heard of most of those, but AltaVista was acquired by Yahoo! and integrated into their platform in 2003. The brand has been all but defunct for over a decade now...
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Re:Searx – A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine by yborg on Thursday December 15, 2016 @10:59AM (#13185442)
>haven't heard of most of those

I feel like I'm 120 years old in Internet years. I mean, I remember when there was no Internet :/

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Re:Searx – A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine by devoply on Thursday December 15, 2016 @10:27AM (#13185175)
That's the joke. Those were meta search engines back in the day.
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Re:Searx – A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine by mcbits on Thursday December 15, 2016 @12:24PM (#13186280)
My favorite was Metasearch or Metacrawler or something like that. It would show you what other users were searching for in real time.
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Re:Searx – A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine by extempore on Thursday December 15, 2016 @11:31PM (#13191081)
That was Metaspy, part of Metacrawler.

Source: I wrote Metaspy. That was almost 20 years ago!

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Re:Searx – A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine by devoply on Friday December 16, 2016 @03:42AM (#13191930)
w00t! big fan of metacrawler back in the day.
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Re:Searx – A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine by dajohnson89 on Thursday December 15, 2016 @10:23AM (#13185132)
I was hoping for AskJeeves and Teoma integration.
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