Xooglers Have Google DNA When It Comes to Search
March 22, 2021
I spotted this story: “Ex-Google Employees Come Up with Their Own Privacy-Focused Search Engine.” The hook is that two Xooglers (former Google employees) are beavering away on a new search engine. The details appear in the write up. What I noticed was that users will have to pay to play. Plus, in order to become a subscriber, certain personal information will be required. Here’s a selection of the data the “privacy focused search engine” will possess:
- Email address
- Phone number
- Location information
- Name
- User settings
- IP address
- Information you save in your ‘spaces.’
- Payment information
- The operating system or device
- Mailing address
- Cookie identifiers
- Information regarding your contacts
- The browser type and version you use
- Pages that you visit
You can take the Xooglers out of Google, but it seems you cannot take the Google out of Xooglers. I particularly like the useful information which can be extracted from these data and nifty analyses like cross correlation. And that browser history! Yep, very interesting.
The privacy focused phrase is tasty too.
Stephen E Arnold, March 22, 2021
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