Swisscows
Swisscows is a web search engine launched in 2014, a project of Hulbee AG, a company based in Egnach, Switzerland.[1][2] It uses semantic data recognition that give faster "answers" to queries. In addition, Swisscows does not store users' data.[3][4] Swisscows also deems itself "family-friendly", with explicit results entirely omitted.[5] The website's servers are based in underground data centers under the Swiss Alps.[6]
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Type of site | Web search engine |
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| Available in | Multilingual |
| Owner | Hulbee AG |
| Created by | Andreas Wiebe |
| URL | www |
| Launched | June 26, 2014 |
| Current status | Online |
Swisscows uses Bing for web search, but has also built its own index for the German language edition.[7] It also has shopping search, music search (powered by SoundCloud), and a language translator powered by Yandex.
As of 2018, there are 20 million monthly search queries, according to Hulbee CEO, Andreas Wiebe.[8]
References
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