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A lot of the snooping does have an actual role with search - they need to guess the intended domain of the query [1]

Welcome to my side project, a better organized directory of domain specific search engines, based on duckduckgo !bang operators https://github.com/MoserMichael/duckduckbang/blob/master/REA...

The project also adds some explanation on the role of each search engine, also the page has been auto translated into several languages.

Ideally this directory/thesaurus should help you with finding an appropriated domain specific search engine for a given task, without the need of snooping on the part of the search engine.

[1] of course they also need the snooping for targeted advertising, but that's a different story!



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