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Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by jotm on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @05:56PM (#8696891)
Sorry, as much as I tried to like it, the results just don't match what I need...
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Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by mehwoot on Thursday December 04, 2014 @12:27AM (#8697944)
Because they don't make any money, because only the sorts of shitty practises people often complain about are what enables making money providing free services.

If enough people were actually willing to pay to use a search engine you could have an awesome search engine with none of that.

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Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by rplnt on Thursday December 04, 2014 @04:38AM (#8698521)
They insert their own referrals for various sites, they do make money.
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Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by heroh on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @08:33PM (#8697443)
https://startpage.com - they offer anonymized google results & don't log IP.
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