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Swisscows

Swisscows is a search engine launched in 2014, a project of Hulbee AG, a company based in Egnach, Switzerland.

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Swisscows
Type of site
Web search engine
Available inMultilingual
HeadquartersEgnach, Arbon District, Thurgau, Switzerland
OwnerHulbee AG
Created byAndreas Wiebe
URLwww.swisscows.com
LaunchedJune 26, 2014 (2014-06-26)
Current statusOnline

Swisscows is a search engine launched in 2014, a project of Hulbee AG, a company based in Egnach, Switzerland.12

History

Swisscows was founded in 2014 by Andreas Wiebe.3

As of 2018, there were 20 million monthly search queries, according to Hulbee CEO, Andreas Wiebe.4

In January 2021, the company launched TeleGuard, a messaging app intended to focus on privacy and data protection.5

Operation

Swisscows uses semantic data recognition that gives faster answers to queries and claims to not store users' data.678

Swisscows also deems itself family-friendly, with explicit results entirely omitted.693 The engine's servers are based in underground data centers under the Swiss Alps, and geographically outside of EU and US.10

Swisscows uses Bing for web search, but has also built its own index for the German language edition.113 It also has shopping search, music search (powered by SoundCloud), and a language translator powered by Yandex.

See also

See also

References

References

  1. "Imprint - Swisscows". swisscows.ch.
  2. "Swiss search engine jumps for moon". Le News. September 2, 2014.
  3. "Internet search services: Europe's quest for online privacy | DW | 04.08.2020". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  4. "European privacy search engines aim to challenge Google". AP NEWS. November 22, 2018.
  5. "Instant Messenger Teleguard ohne persönliche Angaben nutzbar". itmagazine.ch. January 20, 2021.
  6. Kaye, Jason (7 February 2019). "You mean there are other options?". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  7. "Swiss software company Hulbee AG launches smart and secure search engine Startupticker.ch | The Swiss Startup News channel". www.startupticker.ch.
  8. "On practicing safe search: fine tuning, privacy-friendly searches, and learning more — @joycevalenza NeverEndingSearch". blogs.slj.com. 22 July 2018.
  9. "Avoid Google and Bing: 7 Alternative Search Engines That Value Privacy". MakeUseOf. 9 July 2018.
  10. "Datacenter - Swisscows". swisscows.ch.
  11. "European Davids vs Goliath: Privacy search engines aim to challenge Google | Financial Post". Financial Post. November 21, 2018.
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