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Follow on Google News | Private Academic Search Engine Knobull Creates A Learning LadderBy: Knobull, Inc. A potential problem with these commercial websites, is that they record information about you and how you use them. This means that when you conduct searches in the future, you'll see more search results that have to do with things that you've searched for before, but not necessarily ones that are the most relevant to what you are searching for at the time. Bentley continued, "The people behind Knobull didn't like the fact that other search engines were tracking the information of people who used them. We believed that using this information to sell targeted advertisements was privacy-invasive, pitched commercial clutter and skewed what results users get!" Knobull is known as a "private" academic search engine because it doesn't record any personal Internet-related information about you, unless you explicitly give it to them. This means that it cuts through the clutter and doesn't care about your computer's Internet address, your web browser specifications, or even what you searched for, where, and when. With nothing personal to go off of when you search, Knobull's search service Refseek will give you the same results for the same search terms every single time, no matter who you are. It also has features that block the websites that you find from knowing how you found them, so they can't use this information to profile you and show you privacy-invasive targeted advertising. Knobull developmental features include:
Bentley concluded, "Online focus on academic topics and privacy clearly matters! We designed a Ladder to climb over learning roadblocks toward long term academic and career success! Privacy matters because, without it, the Internet becomes a dangerous and inefficient place for us to traverse." End
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