Th3 Core

This stuff adds up quick.  I'm hoping for a package deal.

Fastmail was recommended to me too.

The shame is I like Gmail, but I don't trust the ba#####s.

Anyway, what got me thinking about Fastmail is I have a Purism Librem 5 Linux phone on order (ETA Aprilish 2019), but you can have the most secure phone in the world but what good is it if you are still using Gmail, GCalendar, Dropbox, etc.?  That's a real problem.

>skin

Heck, DDG is doing better promoting Bing than MS is.

I'd love to know DDG's long term strategy.  My two working theories today are: 1. They are building their own index in secret, while learning how to spider and rank, and will roll it out when needed, or 2. out wait MS (which has no idea what to do with Bing other than milk it) and when MS gets tired of running Bing, DDG will buy it and run it as DDG.

>funding
Sounds like there is a Canadian flavored DDG in the works.

>value
Well Marc has shown that you can still build (over 10 years) a good search engine without spending billions of dollars.  (Okay running it is different but still.)  A couple of Brits, working in a bedroom, did what the entire EU could not do.

Now the UK is leaving the EU, but Britain will still have a decent search engine under it's own control, not EU not US not RU, and that will come in very handy someday - if you can keep it.

>appreciated
I appreciated the retweets from Mojeek.  Please convey my thanks, if you can.

>>DDG/Bing

Mainly.  Sometimes even DDG just does not have enough deep, long tail stuff and I have to resort to StartPage.

 Where Mojeek started coming up short were searches like, "free perl webring hosting script"  "free php webring hosting script" "bomis ring hosting script" (I'm going from memory here.)  When you get into 5 word searches about unpopular topics like webrings you can start seeing Mojeek struggling to produce.

On DDG/Bing if you do searches like "best linux note software" "How to install ubuntu linux" "best windows 10 calendar software"  or any of those kind of hardware software reviews, lists comparisons, I can almost predict the sites that will come up on the first page: Lifehacker, makeuseof, techworld, computerworld, etc.  Nothing wrong with those just Bing has it's favorites.

Which made Mojeek refreshing, for those same searches I'd be getting second tier and some UK sites that actually have better written, more in depth articles.  Those were the gems I talked about.

>Monetize

No idea.  DDG started out using Amazon alone, then brought in Bing Ads, that seems to work okay as long as they don't track more than the query and don't overload the serps with ads. Qwant uses Bing ads I think.

Do pass on your experiences with Mojeek and your trial via the feedback option, it's invaluable to hear about real-world experience

BoL,

I used Mojeek as my default every day for 3 weeks and blogged a review. Mojeek noticed my review via Twitter. They linked to it on their blog. So they got my feedback.

I was looking at the list, seems like everyone is opting for Chromium over Gecko. I wonder why?  A few go with Webkit.

I played around with Epic last night.  https://www.epicbrowser.com/

While I wouldn't use it for daily work, I like the fact that it has a VPN built in so your ISP can't track you and I would definitely use it over public wifi.

Forecast = Chance of Riots?

At the least, insurance adjusters won't be driving around with insurance company signs on their cars.

I got an email from a friend in Fayetteville, NC: 11 inches of rain, trees have come down taking out power.  They have been on natural gas powered generator for a couple of days.  But generally all is well.