Bringing a privacy-first search tool to market is a challenging but rewarding task.

Bruno reached out to me mid-April with a suggestion to check out his privacy-first search engine tool Uruky. Uruky works on a subscription model, but one of my kids and I were able to test it out for free for a couple of months.
I normally do not test privacy tools on request, but rather focus on describing tools I’ve discovered myself and already use in daily life. Yet the email conversation between us evolved into quite a warm exchange about his projects, my blog, networks and privacy tools in general. Bruno, being a software engineer, helped me better understand how local networks work, which led to my article about running a Monero node.

  • unglueclass23@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    Thanks for sharing. This might be the push I needed to give them a try. They do seem to be using Google indirectly:

    Serper: Based in the UK (Europe but not EU) and using anonymized Google results, we skipped adding them for a while, but the reality is that a decent percentage of customers wanted a result experience similar to “old” Google (before all the AI stuff) and DuckDuckGo.

    So I would imagine search quality should be good enough.