A detailed look at the privacy landscape of web search from big online engines to self-hosted metasearch, and why Hister offers a fundamentally stronger privacy guarantee than any of them.
A personal walkthrough of how I maximize productivity and privacy with Hister: instant access via global hotkeys, query aliases, skip rules, pre-indexing reference material, and seamless fallback to external search engines.
For most of its history, Wikipedia didn’t have to worry about attracting readers. People searched for something, landed on Wikipedia, and accessed knowledge directly. Crucially, many of them became…