Why You Should Be Using a Private Search Engine
I don&#x27;t disagree with the premise, but given that nobody can afford to make the actual &#x27;engine&#x27; part of a search engine other than Microsoft, Google, Yandex, and Baidu you&#x27;re pretty much stuck with having your queries ending up at one of the four anyway.<p>Masking front ends are ok but not any more effective than say using Tor to route your search requests.<p>Today this suggestion, you should use a private search engine, is equivalent in my mind to you should only use cash to buy things. When you have a panoptic view of both, digital and commercial activity the ability to create a reconstruction of what you have been doing or thinking through meta-data analysis becomes quite difficult to avoid.<p>At this point having your browser spam with other searches as a fuzzing technique would be effective.<p>I suggested (only half joking) that a fundable startup might be a system where subscribers send in their license plate and for $10&#x2F;month or something every month they will get an envelope with one, two, or three other license plate symbols printed on magnetic material to stick to your car. It doesn&#x27;t have to <i>look</i> like a license plate to you and me, only to an automated license plate reader which leaves a lot of room for avoiding state laws about having multiple plates.<p>The idea being that members plates will be thoroughly mixed with a bunch of false hits in license plate reader data bases everywhere making use of that data impractical for your enemies.