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Originally shared on Hacker News
Boutique Ad-Free Search Engine
A boutique search engine that downranks pages containing adverts to remove the incentive for creating spam, and that serves no adverts itself.
01 / The problem
What it addresses
Ad-funded pages incentivize spam and bias search results toward advertisers.
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Boutique Ad-Free Search Engine
A boutique search engine that downranks pages containing adverts to remove the incentive for creating spam, and that serves no adverts itself.
Problem: Ad-funded pages incentivize spam and bias search results toward advertisers.
Posted by @m-i-l · Original comment ↗
“Six years ago I launched a boutique search engine which downranks pages which contain adverts on them (the theory being that this would remove the incentive for creating spam) and of course contains no adverts itself”