Swisscows is a
web search engine
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launched in 2014, a project of Hulbee AG, a company based in
Egnach, Switzerland. It uses
semantic data recognition that gives faster answers to queries and claims to not store users' data.
Swisscows also deems itself
family-friendly
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, with explicit results entirely omitted.
The engine's servers are based in underground
data centers under the
Swiss Alps, and geographically outside of
EU and
US.
Swisscows uses
Bing
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* Microsoft Bing, a web search engine
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Food and drink
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for web search, but has also built its own
index for the German language edition.
It also has shopping search, music search (powered by
SoundCloud
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), and a language translator powered by
Yandex
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.
History
Swisscows was founded in 2014 by Andreas Wiebe.
As of 2018, there were 20 million monthly search queries, according to Hulbee CEO, Andreas Wiebe.
In January 2021, the company launched
TeleGuard, a messaging app that intends to focus on privacy and data protection.
See also
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References
External links
Official Website
Internet search engines
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