What is PriEco?
•It is a web search engine with 2 main principles in mind: PRIVACY and ECOLOGY
•Open source with AGPL v3 license: PriEco/LICENCE at master - PriEco - Codeberg.org
•Powered by Google, Bing and own index
Privacy
•No tracking
•No data sharing
•Opt-in anonymous analytics
•Disable-able JavaScript: Uses only small necessary JS for search suggestions and “X” at search bar to clear search box. Other way it is fully usable without JS and every JS element can be disabled in settings.
•Transparent
Ecology
•Hosted on servers only powered by wind power plants.
•Crawler powered by solar energy
•Future plans to use profit for charitable activities (PriEco has no profit for now)
What do you think about it? I would love to hear your feedback.
Yea, for now I am using pretty cheap web hosting. Sure after PriEco grows larger I will upgrade it to a better hosting. Later maybe even using my servers.
As for now, I will look into the test and try to fix as many problems as possible.
•Could you please clarify what you mean by " it is not optimized, it is not showing full results"? I use Firefox as my main web browser on both computer and phone, and personally I don’t have any problems, but you may have different experiences. I suppose you mean web search results over the “Search with Startpage, DuckDuckGo…” are sometimes cut off. In this case I am aware of it and will try to fix it today and over the weekend.
•I have planned to add premium feature to remove ads, I didn’t think at this time people would buy it, but because of your feedback I will add it much sooner.
That you said after Brave search PriEco is the best one is an awesome feedback considering PriEco is so much smaller than Brave search right now, with only me working on it.
The search engine is not optimized for firefox mobile, i think, for desktop it is perfect.
Regarding pricing for search engine, please make it affordable and purchase power parity in third world countries and other countries.
Brave search and pri eco are the two search engine whose Ui/Ux is great(minimalism). I only use thess two search engines.
Thank you
Yes, I am planning to integrate AI. I am not sure yet but it seems like my first AI projects will be summarizer and AI that will be trained on my results and Google results so it will increase quality of my index.
The results on top of the page you see are directly from Google, results after “Search with…” are from my index.
Seems better with higher dpi, but still requires a fix.
You could do that yourself, click on one of a ad and have ublock origin. When you are redirected they are intercepted by ublock origin and say it will track users among web. You could insist a privacy friendly ad provider, if possible.
You could create a roadmap of features implementation in Prieco, in your website.
I tried very hard to find a privacy friendly ad network that would accept to provide PriEco with ads.
Unfortunately, I haven’t found any, only the a-ads.
They pay very poorly, but they don’t use JavaScript so I decided to try them.
I may remove them completely because you are right, ublock blocks them a lot.
I could create a roadmap, and I will, but around 3 weeks ago, I have finished base version of PriEco. Right now, I am trying to get users to get feedback and to construct roadmap from the requested features.
I have still some ideas that are harder to implement and I want to add them, but I am not sure witch of them first…
For now, I am just trying to increase PriEco user base.
If you could create a community in any app where every user can suggest ideas and talk about search engine?
I hope there could be an alternative to ads.
But…
