Swisscows

Swisscows is a web search engine launched in 2014, a project of Hulbee AG, a company based in Egnach, Switzerland.[3][4]

Swisscows
Type of site
Web search engine
Available inMultilingual
OwnerHulbee AG
Created byAndreas Wiebe
URLwww.swisscows.com
Alexa rank235,796 (May 2019) (Swisscows.com)[1]
160,724 (May 2019) (Swisscows.ch)[2]
LaunchedJune 26, 2014 (2014-06-26)
Current statusOnline

The search engine is based on semantic data recognition that give faster "answers" to queries. In addition, Swisscows does not store users' data.[5][6] Swisscows also deems itself "family-friendly", with explicit results entirely omitted.[7] The website's servers are based in underground data centers under the Swiss Alps.[8]

Swisscows uses Bing for web search, but has also built its own index for the German language edition.[9] It also has shopping search, music search (powered by SoundCloud), and a language translator powered by Yandex.

As of 2018, there are 20 million monthly search queries, according to Hulbee CEO, Andreas Wiebe.[10]

See also

References
  1. "Swisscows.com Site Info". Alexa. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
  2. "Swisscows.ch Site Info". Alexa. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
  3. "Imprint - Swisscows". swisscows.ch.
  4. "Swiss search engine jumps for moon". Le News. September 2, 2014.
  5. "Swiss software company Hulbee AG launches smart and secure search engine Startupticker.ch | The Swiss Startup News channel". www.startupticker.ch.
  6. "On practicing safe search: fine tuning, privacy-friendly searches, and learning more — @joycevalenza NeverEndingSearch". blogs.slj.com.
  7. "Avoid Google and Bing: 7 Alternative Search Engines That Value Privacy". MakeUseOf.
  8. "Datacenter - Swisscows". swisscows.ch.
  9. "European Davids vs Goliath: Privacy search engines aim to challenge Google | Financial Post". November 21, 2018.
  10. "European privacy search engines aim to challenge Google". AP NEWS. November 22, 2018.


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