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India’s first private Search Engine “OnionRide”

A proud moment for every Indian to occupy its search engine named “ONIONRIDE”, designed and developed by Indian researchers under ATMNIRBHAR BHARAT (self-independent India).

Briefing the features of the search engine head of the research team said “the search engine is designed in such a way that every page is encoded and can be stored in a uniform encoding pattern from the huge database of the search engine. This unique feature of ONIONRIDE”, enables the search to be performed for and from all websites”

The search engine has been placed for running Beta testing and is going to be hosted and is claimed to be the most portable and user-friendly web search engine of India.

The software system of “ONIONRIDE” is developed to perform internet searches by using the high privacy featured.

Their website [https://onionride.com] has no details about them whatsoever. The links to about page, privacy policy and terms of service are broken.

They might just be running a searx instance under the hood. This seems like a cheap attempt to get funding from the government.

All that said, I want there to be a good alternative to Google. I hope that I am wrong and this does infact prove to be a viable alternative.

you can check out onionride.com

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Hosting onionride.com on Google network with Google certificates contradicts being "self-independent".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago

And their nameservers are cloudflare for a privacy touchdown.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Yes the website is hosted on google and SSL is certified by google but here all results in onion ride are encrypted and they do not sell user data as they mention in their privacy policy.