Search - I'm even going to pay for it. Search for the damn terms I enter into a search field. The "app" may at most have a CSS style sheet, 1993 look. No Javascript, no images. Give me options to limit my search to date ranges, domains, urls, languages, etc.
HTTPS basic auth. No cookies, no tracking, no country detection, no redirect to see what I clicked, no guessing unless I add a flag in the search field.
There was a company once that provided something like this for "free". Then they turned to SHIT.
It's not EVERYTHING you want, but I started using http://duckduckgo.com/ about a week ago and it's probably the closest you're going to get to a useful search engine nowadays. Full keyboard usage and zero tracking. Simple and clean. I'm enjoying it thus far.
As you become accustomed to using their bang codes, you'll find yourself trying/guessing a new bang code because "that's what it should be," and sometimes it works. That's how I discovered my pinboard tags are behind !pb
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Search - I'm even going to pay for it. Search for the damn terms I enter into a search field. The "app" may at most have a CSS style sheet, 1993 look. No Javascript, no images. Give me options to limit my search to date ranges, domains, urls, languages, etc.
HTTPS basic auth. No cookies, no tracking, no country detection, no redirect to see what I clicked, no guessing unless I add a flag in the search field.
There was a company once that provided something like this for "free". Then they turned to SHIT.
It's not EVERYTHING you want, but I started using http://duckduckgo.com/ about a week ago and it's probably the closest you're going to get to a useful search engine nowadays. Full keyboard usage and zero tracking. Simple and clean. I'm enjoying it thus far.
Love ddg.
As you become accustomed to using their bang codes, you'll find yourself trying/guessing a new bang code because "that's what it should be," and sometimes it works. That's how I discovered my pinboard tags are behind !pb
Anonymous seems to like it also: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/03/14/duckduckgo-the-defa...