Why I Use Uruky, a Private Search Engine

This post was last edited 0 minutes ago. I've been paying for Uruky search engine for several months now. Uruky's software engineer, Bruno, reached out to me in April with an offer to try it for free for a limited period; after that I began paying for the service. You might be wondering why someone would pay for a search engine when there are good privacy alternatives available for free. I put this question to Bruno last month; you can read his take on paying for private search in my interview and in the article Why pay for search? on Uruky's website. Switching to a privacy search engine developed by a tiny team is not as straightforward as, for example, switching from WhatsApp to Signal, but I think it's worth considering. About private search enginesUp until recently, I used DuckDuckGo as my search engine. I would still recommend this to friends, family, colleagues, students as a good option, because it is so easy to set it as your new default search engine in any browser. Our…