Decentralized Search: Architecture, Privacy, and Trade-Offs
Explore distributed indexing, peer visibility, content addressing, resilience, moderation, and why decentralization does not automatically equal anonymity.
How queries, clicks, browser state, and network metadata create a search data trail.
Explore distributed indexing, peer visibility, content addressing, resilience, moderation, and why decentralization does not automatically equal anonymity.
See how search profiles are built, how non-personalized ranking differs, and which contextual signals can remain without creating a behavioral dossier.
A plain-language guide to cookies, identifiers, click tracking, short-term logs, and the limits of no-tracking search claims.
Learn what a private search engine can protect, which data trails still exist, and how to evaluate privacy claims without relying on slogans.
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