- Jun 24, 2016
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Privacy Protected German Search Engine MetaGer.net..
Now Free Software;
SOURCE: prnewswire.com (ARTICLE DATE: 23rd Aug 2016)
MetaGer, Germany's most popular meta search engine for the internet, has made its source code public, allowing its user community not only to verify its data protection and security features but also to contribute to MetaGer's future developments...
MetaGer's source code has been placed in its entirety in a public repository located at..
open-source / MetaGer · GitLab. The only elements missing from the code are authentication details relating to MetaGer's meta-crawled sources search engines as these are subject to non-disclosure agreements.
"MetaGer is all about protecting the privacy of its users. By offering open-source access to its source code, the online community can now verify for itself that MetaGer does not store any data about its users", says MetaGer director Dr. Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann.
Offered in the German (http://metager.de) and English language (http://metager.net), MetaGer treats searches submitted by its users as anonymous from an early stage; IP addresses are neither recorded nor stored, and information is not passed on to other search engines...
Now Free Software;
SOURCE: prnewswire.com (ARTICLE DATE: 23rd Aug 2016)
MetaGer, Germany's most popular meta search engine for the internet, has made its source code public, allowing its user community not only to verify its data protection and security features but also to contribute to MetaGer's future developments...
MetaGer's source code has been placed in its entirety in a public repository located at..
open-source / MetaGer · GitLab. The only elements missing from the code are authentication details relating to MetaGer's meta-crawled sources search engines as these are subject to non-disclosure agreements.
"MetaGer is all about protecting the privacy of its users. By offering open-source access to its source code, the online community can now verify for itself that MetaGer does not store any data about its users", says MetaGer director Dr. Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann.
Offered in the German (http://metager.de) and English language (http://metager.net), MetaGer treats searches submitted by its users as anonymous from an early stage; IP addresses are neither recorded nor stored, and information is not passed on to other search engines...
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