Yes, the title is right. I created my very own search engine which is open source and controlled by me. You can (probably) even use it for yourself by going to notgoogle.win! I will guide you through the steps so that you can make your own. Why do this? Many search engines (pretty much all of them) collect your data to serve ads based on your searches. Even DuckDuckGo, the “privacy first” search engine has exclusive deals with Microsoft.

If you look at the world’s biggest industries in business, anything pertaining to technology will appear without a doubt. Technology is giant and so are the companies that provide the common services we use today like Google Search. These services that started as a personal project in a nerd’s mom’s garage have become giant corporations who monopolize our data with their services. Artificial Intelligence Tech “giants” are competing for a variety of things.