About Search Encrypt: The Private Search Engine
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9 min readJul 30, 2018
You may have heard of Search Encrypt before, or this may be your first time hearing about our private search engine. This post will help you understand what our product does, and how it keeps your searches private on the internet.
Search Encrypt Features
- Expiring Browsing History: After you’re done searching, this encryption key expires making your search history inaccessible.
- Local Encryption: Search Encrypt begins encrypting your searches as soon as you press enter. Your search terms are encrypted locally on your machine to prevent anyone else who could access your computer or network from snooping or spying on your search history. We then send your search terms to our servers in encrypted form. This prevents any man-in-the-middle attacks. Your search terms remain encrypted after you’re done searching so that your search history can’t be viewed.
- Privacy-Friendly Maps Search: One of Search Encrypt’s newest features is its maps search. Unlike big search engines which require gathering your location data to offer a useful map product, we’ve made it easier to access maps on the internet, without sacrificing on privacy.
- Privacy-Friendly Video Search: Another cool feature we’ve added to Search Encrypt within the past few months is a video search. We…