DontRef.Me

Maker

Hi! My name is Rushi. 👋 Just like everyone else, I rely on Google Search for everything. But a few months back I started experimenting with some privacy friendly search engines and realized that the majority of my search needs can be fulfilled by DuckDuckGo, StartPage and other search engines. But when I couldn't find results on them, the efforts of opening Google and searching again were just too much. 🤷‍♂️ So I built Pluto Search (named after my pooch 🐶), a simple search tool that first searches for you on a randomly selected Privacy Friendly Search Engine and if you don't find the results, it finds it for you on Google. ✊

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2yr ago

Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen

Write Invisible

@rishijash - Congrats. I got good results using Pluto and my data is mine :) One suggestion - I found the way the back button is used frustrating. The reason was that I was hitting the back button on Pluto to refine a search query and instead of Pluto I was directed to Google.

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2yr ago

Rushi

DontRef.Me

Maker

@ebrahimkhalil Thanks for checking out the tool and for the suggestion. I updated the code. Now it will ask whether you want to search again on Google or refine the query on back press. Hope that helps. Cheers to Happy Privacy Friendly Searches.

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2yr ago

Naveed Rehman

YeyPin

Is it a meta search engine? I searched n took me to duckduckgo. May b im getting it completely wrong. 🤔

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2yr ago

Rushi

DontRef.Me

Maker

@naveed_rehman Thanks for the question. It is kinda meta search (or not). Basically it redirects you to DuckDuckGo or StartPage and when you press back button it asks you whether you are satisfied with the search or not. If you select no then it takes you to Google. The goal for building and using this tool is to not always search everything on Google and distribute between different search engines. (And of course fallback to Google if results are not satisfactory). Hope this helps. :)

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2yr ago

Naveed Rehman

YeyPin

@rishijash Now I got it! :) Amazing.

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2yr ago