Unbubble
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| German search engine | |
| languages | 8 languages in 11 regions |
| On-line | 2014 (currently discontinued in March 2019) |
| https://unbubble.eu/ | |
Unbubble was a meta search engine that, according to its own information, specialized in neutral search results . Transparency and data protection were named as further goals on the website. Unbubble obtained the search results from other search services and prepared them accordingly. The name is an allusion to the filter bubble (English filter bubble ) on the other search engines.
Unbubble was published in April 2014 and in the following July first aroused the interest of the national media and the trade press. Since September 2015, in addition to the web search, there have also been separate areas for image and science searches , a youth protection filter , autocomplete search suggestions and various configuration options.
The search engine was closed in March 2019.
Search engine
The results page of Unbubble was built from top to bottom from blocks of three search hits each. Each block came from a source that was clearly identified. Both conventional Internet search engines and information, news, shopping and image services served as sources. In addition to the search results, Unbubble identified the search suggestions called "variations" and a keyword cloud . Some search hits contained preview images and additional information.
In addition to the normal keyword search, the search engine also offered simple search operators (+, - and "") with which the search could be refined if necessary. In addition, there were so-called bubble tags with which search queries from the Unbbuble search mask could be sent directly to external services such as Wikipedia or other search engines.
financing
Unbubble was usually funded through donations and sales commissions from shopping sources. According to the operator, the search results of the shopping sources were not preferred or artificially switched. They were therefore subject to the criteria of neutrality. The resulting weak separation from the rest of the content was criticized occasionally. In a later version, shopping results were optionally displayed and were completely separated from the web search results by default.
Search neutrality
Unbubble advertised with neutral search results. For this purpose, the search engine had technology that determined the subject area of each search query individually. During this process, the sources were weighted according to neutrality and sorted accordingly. This should ensure that every search result would give the most neutral possible impression of the topic, i.e. that it would be as free as possible from subjective values.
privacy
Referring to Edward Snowden's revelations, the search engine advertised strong privacy. The connections to Unbubble.eu were secured with SSL , according to the provider, no usage profiles were created and no third-party services such as social media widgets or advertising banners were integrated into the website. The server location was Germany.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b ZDF Today : Unbubble - a German anti-Google? ( Memento of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), July 13, 2014
- ↑ Heise online (iX) : Unbubble: Search engine searches outside the filter bubble , from July 2, 2014
- ↑ Macwelt : Unbubble.eu: Alternative Internet Search without Google , July 16, 2014
- ↑ ITespresso : German search engine Unbubble receives a comprehensive update , from September 16, 2015
- ↑ Unbubble: Search Tips
- ↑ Unbubble: donation page
- ↑ Unbubble: Everything you need to know about Unbubble
- ↑ Unbubble: This is how search neutrality works