Blippex has always maintained that its browser plugin, which monitors surfing to establish search ranking, doesn’t record IP addresses. But to set skeptical users’ minds at rest, it harnessed WebRTC technology as a way of setting up a P2P anonymization chain.
Blippex calls on a few open-source tools to run its search engine on Amazon Web Services. The input is different from the usual search engine fodder, and so is the data architecture.
Blippex wasn’t meant to be a pivot for Archify, but — under funding pressure — that’s how it turned out anyway. That’s no excuse for giving users just two days to export their data, though.
A spin-off of the personal search service Archify, Blippex aims to use DuckDuckGo-like private searching as an incentive for users to pass webpage engagement information to the service’s developers.
