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svmetasearch

@svmetasearch@pol.social

A search engine developed & hosted in Poland. Founded 28 December 2022 as SVMetaSearch.

Project proudly sponsored by Technology for People Foundation (https://pol.social/@ftdl), headquartered in Kraków.

We respond in Polish and English. Oh, and we are not strictly focused on our search engine, we boost also interesting findings from the field of (mostly) online privacy.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

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We are urgently looking for funding in order to provide you with a bigger index in the long term. If you have a PLN or EUR capable bank account, please contact us to consult financial support methods. Donation amount does not matter. Thank you in advance!

Lead developer could be contacted over Matrix at @slavistapl:noevil.pl (Oliwier Jaszczyszyn).

Also, the lead developer is looking for a stable job, preferably on permanent employment contract conditions in Warsaw, Poland (in the frontend development field). More details upon contacting.

(Please boost this for more reach)

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[This post will be in Polish, you can translate this post if you do not speak this language]

Odnośnie zbiórki na @ftdl, otworzyliśmy również zbiórkę na zrzutka.pl, gdzie można wesprzeć w dużo bardziej wygodny sposób nasz cel (czytaj bez wcześniejszego uzgadniania warunków)! Zachęcamy do udostępniania poniższego linku i ewentualnych wpłat:

https://zrzutka.pl/9f6x3v

Jeżeli mieszkasz za granicą Polski, wpłaty mogą być utrudnione lub nawet niemożliwe z tego względu, że platforma przyjmuje wyłącznie polskie złote (PLN).

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Yesterday, we reached 20,000 overall searches. From the previous milestone of 10,000 searches, we needed 2 months and 11 days to accomplish so.

Looking forward for seeing 50,000 as next major milestone!

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We decided to mock the Google Chrome's advert campaign running in Poland.

(For non-Polish speakers: it says that Chrome is the only browser without an adblocker and tells you to get rid of Chrome.)

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Yes, that's us. How'd you know?

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On the Earth Day, we should promote the ecological ways to search. And SVMetaSearch is one of search engines powered by renewable energy.

Another search engine claiming to plant trees is Ecosia - https://ecosia.org.

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Hey, I've heard Bing frontends are gone temporarily.

Because we know how search engine is a crucial part of most, if not all internet users, please consider donating some spare money, so we can expand our index, finally push the first MVP and reinforce our crawler: https://zrzutka.pl/9f6x3v

Thank you!

If you do not have PLN but still want to donate, contact me on Matrix: @slavistapl:noevil.pl

svmetasearch, to DuckDuckGo
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⚠️ TRADE OFFER ⚠️

You get:

  • focus on search results
  • no AI
  • no ads, money coming only from voluntary donors and private pocket of lead developer
  • the search engine hosted in the centre of Europe (Poland)
  • in the future, focus on an independent index

I get:

  • happy users

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Oh, the irony.

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We are also looking for people who know either Polish or English and want to translate https://helpcentre.svmetasearch.eu.org to other languages.

We are looking mostly for Ukrainian, Belarussian and Russian - due to the fact that SVMetaSearch is a Polish project and some refugees who came to Poland due to the ongoing war are speaking either of these languages. Other languages are gladly seen, too.

Although voluntary for now, we don't reject the way to pay you if we get enough funding.

Speaking of funding - we would like to thank an anonymous donor who pledged 1.10 PLN per week. If you want to join in, take a look at LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/SlaVistaPL or OpenCollective: https://opencollective.com/SVMetaSearch

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Did you know? Peekr not only warns you that tracking takes place, but also lists out every single tracker found. For less clutter, this is off by default, but you can easily turn on these reports by flipping "Count website trackers" in settings.

It's as if I had uBlock Origin without uBlock Origin*.

Shipping soon with the first MVP.

  • Peekr doesn't block trackers, unfortunately.
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28 January is the #dataprivacyday. If you don't have a resolution to celebrate this day - don't worry, we'll help.

You can start with switching to SVMetaSearch.

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Fun fact - our new index has 7.5MM of documents and is over 15 GB in size.

If you want to support us financially - please contact us! (Currently we support PLN and EUR direct transfers only.)

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Because we are about to hit 100 followers, a friendly reminder: SVMetaSearch is made out of passion. We had not took any venture capital funding, and will NOT accept it ever.

We will be trying our best to be truly independent from big corporations or venture capitalists, so that's why we are asking you to tip a small donation weekly / monthly depending which platform you decide to use:

Any boosts are appreciated!

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we and our 2,137 trusted partners

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you can't always get what you want

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Gonna assume that IT lectures are gradually rolling out across Polish schools, so...

lesson number 1 - don't use Google, use SVMetaSearch (or any other, trustworthy SearXNG instance)

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In regards to https://pol.social/@svmetasearch/112390333374657849, we've found the issue and mitigated it, we're now back at full speed 😎

We're also sorry that it took so long to resolve the issue - we are a really small team working pro publico bono.

Thank you @piotrsikora (and @ftdl) for your sustained assistance!

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We've initially thought it was a DDoS attack - this is the first thought when an immediate sustained surge in search requests happens. Requests were counted somewhere between 160 to even 200 thousands daily. This is an unprecedented growth - we were noting 300 to 400 (not thousands of) searches daily. Some things I could recall before this happened, is that @lukaso666 was seeking for Esperanto translations (thank you!) proofreading, and some singular mentions about us to other fediverse users.

As we do not maintain anything else in the SoMe world besides our fediverse presence, it is unknown whether someone popular outside of this bubble found out our search engine and mentioned us.

We will be continuing works on the infrastructure later this evening or tomorrow.

EDIT: the last update of our statistics brought us a new record 🎉

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"site:" flag is now supported in our index!

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Which search engine (or a frontend) were you used before you switched to SVMetaSearch?

(Answer order is completely random except the 4th option)

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"A może coś z polskiego podwórka – SVMetaSearch? To tzw. metawyszukiwarka, która zaciąga wyniki z wielu innych wyszukiwarek jednocześnie, pozwalając wybrać źródła. Buduje również swój własny mini-indeks."

via @anedroid - https://writefreely.pl/anedroid/big-tech

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Today at 12.48pm, we reached a milestone of 1,000,000 indexed documents!

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🎉 As a founder, lead developer and social media manager of Peekr I am so glad to finally announce that we are nearing our first public MVP!

https://nove.team/blog/peekr-is-nearing-its-first-mvp-8e0c927de6ea

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