Comments on: Startup #80 – Private Search http://astartupaday.com/2007/08/11/startup-80-private-search/ Each day I'll post an idea for a new Web 2.0 startup Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: astartupaday http://astartupaday.com/2007/08/11/startup-80-private-search/#comment-522 astartupaday Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:46:08 +0000 http://astartupaday.wordpress.com/2007/08/11/startup-80-private-search/#comment-522 Check it out, I love Mashable: http://mashable.com/2007/08/13/ask-privacy-policy/ Looks like Ask has the best privacy policy of the Big 5, but they didn't include A9... Check it out, I love Mashable: http://mashable.com/2007/08/13/ask-privacy-policy/

Looks like Ask has the best privacy policy of the Big 5, but they didn’t include A9…

]]> By: astartupaday http://astartupaday.com/2007/08/11/startup-80-private-search/#comment-521 astartupaday Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:10:16 +0000 http://astartupaday.wordpress.com/2007/08/11/startup-80-private-search/#comment-521 I like it. Building a search engine from scratch is some serious bidness, tho. Would be interesting to see what type of privacy policy something like Amazon's A9 engine would have. Since they're not really leveraging it for targeting advertising purposes, they might be more liberal than some of the big dogs. I like it. Building a search engine from scratch is some serious bidness, tho. Would be interesting to see what type of privacy policy something like Amazon’s A9 engine would have. Since they’re not really leveraging it for targeting advertising purposes, they might be more liberal than some of the big dogs.

]]> By: Colin Dowling http://astartupaday.com/2007/08/11/startup-80-private-search/#comment-505 Colin Dowling Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:16:05 +0000 http://astartupaday.wordpress.com/2007/08/11/startup-80-private-search/#comment-505 Forget the ads - I don't know how TOS for different engines work, but you could do it one of two ways: 1. Make it a software download that the user buys. Installed on the computer, it does what you are describing (sends clicks through a redirection filter, blocks ads, etc.) 2. Since the engines won't like #1, perhaps build a "pay to use" search engine that doesn't collect data. Granted, it would be hard to make a good SE from scratch without tracking, but I think a lot of people would gladly pay a nominal fee (say, $20 a year) to use a search engine that is based entirely on the notion that it doesn't track user behavior. Forget the ads – I don’t know how TOS for different engines work, but you could do it one of two ways:

1. Make it a software download that the user buys. Installed on the computer, it does what you are describing (sends clicks through a redirection filter, blocks ads, etc.)

2. Since the engines won’t like #1, perhaps build a “pay to use” search engine that doesn’t collect data. Granted, it would be hard to make a good SE from scratch without tracking, but I think a lot of people would gladly pay a nominal fee (say, $20 a year) to use a search engine that is based entirely on the notion that it doesn’t track user behavior.

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