Swisscows

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Swisscows
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Type of site
 Web search engine
Available inMultilingual
Headquarters Egnach, Arbon District, Thurgau, Switzerland
OwnerHulbee AG
Created byAndreas Wiebe
URL www.swisscows.com
LaunchedJune 26, 2014;11 years ago (2014-06-26)
Current statusOnline

Swisscows is a search engine launched in 2014, a project of Hulbee AG, a company based in Egnach, Switzerland. [1] [2]

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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 that intends 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. [6] [7] [8]

Swisscows also deems itself family-friendly, with explicit results entirely omitted. [6] [9] [3] 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. [11] [3] It also has shopping search, music search (powered by SoundCloud), and a language translator powered by Yandex.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Imprint - Swisscows". swisscows.ch.
  2. ↑ "Swiss search engine jumps for moon". Le News. September 2, 2014.
  3. 1 2 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. 1 2 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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