Land Ho!

Incognito search where you maintain your own search history.

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Incognito search where you maintain your own search history.

3 followers

Land Ho allows users to perform web queries across popular internet search engines and save the history of their queries securely within their Blockstack account.

Launch tags:Web App•Productivity•Privacy

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This is great, is there a way to setup a search engine keyword in Chrome/Brave so I can search in the address bar with :lh?

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7yr ago

Land Ho!

Maker

@justinphelan Great question! We're working on this and other ways to make search easier and more seamless!

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7yr ago

Great product so far! I will use it daily. My regular workflow is this: I use DDG in Brave, and parallel, having g****.com opened in an incognito window (I know this approach is not perfect, but it was the best I found to mix the usage of DDG and Big G). I have a question regarding the fingerprinting used by the Big G: Land Ho is not a proxy server neither a VPN routing program, for instance, it doesn't mask my IP address. If I use any Big G product (like Youtube or Gmail) directly logged-in from a Brave tab, Big G is registering my IP address and linking it to my Big G account. So, if I open BigG.com search from Land Ho, Big G could understand that it is me. Although Big G might promise that they only registered logged-in user data, it's tentative for them to store data related to a single profile, considering IP address connections, for example. Any hint of how to tackle this?

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7yr ago

Land Ho!

Maker

@unclemimo This is the conundrum, right! I have the same issue. Currently we do not plan to extend into anonymizing proxies or tor or whatever, but there seems to be an appetite for more/better disambiguation from the Suveillance Capitalists, so that is something we will need to consider. As you correctly imply, Land Ho gives you the same level of anonymity (or lack thereof) as Incognito mode.

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7yr ago

I am still figuring How to use it? - So basically you are saying in chrome browser instead of typing google and keyword in search bar. You are saying type Landho and keyword in the new search bar. Problems #1. Google has got stuck in my mind, if you wake me up from sleep and hand me laptop I will type google without thinking. #2. I have to right click results to open in new window, why can't I directly click result to open in same window. #3. The new window which is opened is not recorded in Landho History #4. I use refind extension which injects a link recommendation in my google search results page. I will miss it if I use Landho. #5 Is it possible to use google search and landho does only history tracking using blockchain?

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7yr ago

Land Ho!

Maker

@arunkw cool. #1 - Stop waking up from sleep and searching. We always advocate searching while you're wide awake. #2 - a temporary consequence of us being able to show you outside search results. We hope to fix this soon. #3 - We are not recording you clicks, only your searches. If you search, its captured for you to manage as you wish. Keep it, delete it, hug it. Its yours. #4 Hopefully we have an option for you soon, but at the moment, we dont have a way to let your extensions track you. #5 - Yes! But why? Blockchain is only good if you need a global, shared, immutable truth. App chains are certainly possible, and we may go in that direction someday if there would ever be a need.

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7yr ago

Land Ho!

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Edit 2019-10-30: We've released some updates to Land Ho today. An easier-to-use initial search screen, bug fixes, and a new Search Engine. Hope you enjoy. --- Land Ho allows users to perform web queries across popular internet search engines and save the history of their queries securely within their Blockstack account. Queries can then be repeated on different engines by simply toggling between them. And even though search history data can be accessed by the user (and the user alone), it can also be easily deleted at the user's discretion. Our aim is to displace centralized systems of control by building bridges between familiar systems and new ones. Land Ho is only one piece of that puzzle, and we are proud to add one more way that users can slowly, but surely, take back control of their digital lives. Challenges we’re aware of… despite the fact we’re quite happy with what we accomplished here in a short period of time. We had to rely on iframes which don't give much flexibility (to say the least) and some results won't load as a result without right-clicking to open the link in a new tab. We hope to add new functionality, stability, and improved UX in the future. But in the mean time, we’re super excited to have you test out this first release with us!

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7yr ago

Not work "Failed to fetch information about the app requesting authentication. Please contact the app maintainer to resolve the issue."

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6yr ago

Land Ho!

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@jonatan_montesinos Server configuration error has been resolved. Thanks for the heads up!

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6yr ago

Private search is important to me. I find the fact that today my personal queries are shared with advertisers quite disturbing. The layout and easy navigation around Land Ho is what attracts me to this product. The fact that search queries are private and can be managed directly marks Land Ho a definite winner in my book!

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7yr ago