MetaGer#Features
{{short description|Privacy-focused internet search engine}}
{{Infobox website
| name = MetaGer
| logo = MetaGer logo.svg
| type = Search engine
| country = Germany
| country_of_origin = Germany
| owner = SuMa e.V.
| url = {{URL|https://metager.org}}
| launch_date = 1996
}}
MetaGer is a metasearch engine focused on protecting users' privacy. Based in Germany, and hosted as a cooperation between the German NGO 'SUMA-EV - Association for Free Access to Knowledge' and the University of Hannover.{{cite book|last=Lewandowski|first=Dirk|title=Handbuch Internet Suchmaschinen 3|date=May 2013|publisher=Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft AKA GmbH|isbn=978-3-89838-680-7|pages=3, 29–31|language=de}}{{cite web|url=https://metager.de/impressum/|title=Impressum - MetaGer|website=metager.de}}{{cite news|last=Döring|first=Christian|title=Google verlinkt falsch auf das Landesportal|url=http://www.mz-web.de/mitteldeutschland/sachsen-anhalt-de-google-verlinkt-falsch-auf-das-landesportal,20641266,26473210.html|access-date=7 April 2014|newspaper=Mitteldeutsche Zeitung|date=5 March 2014|language=de}}{{cite web |url=https://metager.org/tips |title=MetaGer hints, unsorted - this and that - did you know it?}}
History
On 29 August 2013, an English version of MetaGer, known as the MetaGer.net, is available.{{cite web|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/german-search-engine-metager-protected-110000315.html|title=Yahoo! finance news|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921060120/http://finance.yahoo.com/news/german-search-engine-metager-protected-110000315.html|archive-date=2013-09-21}}
On 16 August 2016, MetaGer's source code was released on GitLab.{{Cite web|url=https://gitlab.metager.de/open-source/MetaGer|title=open-source / MetaGer|website=GitLab|language=en|access-date=2021-05-10}}
On 10th September 2024, MetaGer announced that it would no longer offer the free tier of its service due to a contract termination from Yahoo!, who provided access to Bing's search results.{{Cite web|url=https://suma-ev.de/en/eine-aera-geht-zu-ende/|title=An era comes to an end / MetaGer|website=suma-ev.de|language=en|access-date=2024-09-11}}
Features
The system is built on 24 small-scale web crawlers under MetaGer's own control.
Search queries are relayed to as many as 50 search engines.{{cite news |last=Schild |first=Gerd |title=Deutschland, ein Sammlermärchen |newspaper=Hannoversche allgemeine Zeitung |date=5 July 2013 |pages=3 |language=de}} Their main Web results coming from Bing, Mojeek and Brave Search.{{Cite web |url=https://metager.org/search-engine |title=About our search engines / MetaGer |website=metager.org |language=en |access-date=2024-09-11}} The results are filtered, compiled and sorted before being presented to the user.
Users can select the search engines to query, according to their individual choices among other options (such as "check for availability and sort by date").{{cite book |last=Karzauninkat |first=Stefan |title=Die Suchfibel |year=1998 |publisher=Ernst Klett Schulbuchverlag Leibzig GmbH |isbn=3-12-238104-4 |page=97 |edition=1 |language=de}} Users can create personal blacklists to filter out websites.{{cite web | url=https://metager.org/about | title=About Us - MetaGer }}
MetaGer provides access to their services only through encrypted connections.
As of December 2013, there is also a Tor Hidden Service that allows users to access the MetaGer search functionality from within the Tor network.{{cite news|last=Schulzki-Haddouti|first=Christiane|title=Anonymes Suchen und Finden mit MetaGer|url=http://heise.de/-2165076|access-date=7 April 2014|newspaper=Heise Zeitschriften Verlag|date=7 April 2014|language=de}}{{Cite web |title=tor hidden service - MetaGer |url=https://metager.org/tor |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=metager.org}} Since February 2014, MetaGer additionally offers the option to open the result webpages anonymously.
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