Would you pay for an advertisement-free search engine? – Ghacks

A handful of search engines dominate the market. There is Google Search, which dominates in most regions, Microsoft’s Bing, Baidu and Yandex.

Core functionality is shared among the search engines. You may run searches, use some filters, or browse only specific content type results. All these search engines have in common that they generate revenue through advertisement.

Privacy-focused search engines started to gain popularity in the wake of 9/11 and the Snowden revelations. Search engines like DuckDuckGo or Startpage appeared, promising no user tracking and less advertisement. These search engines use the indexes of the main search engines, e.g., Startpage is using Google’s index and DuckDuckGo Bing’s.

Only a handful of search engines use their own index, with the European Qwant search engine being one of them.

Now, it appears, that another type of search engine is gaining in popularity. Search engines that are not free, but require a monthly subscription. While that does not sound…

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