In today’s environment, search engines will analyze and provide other additional content based on the keywords or usage results that users search for, which of course includes various advertisements. In this case, there are actually both advantages and disadvantages. Now an application “Xayn” launched by a German developer combines privacy with personalization of user preferences, providing search results without affecting your privacy.
Don’t want to be stuffed by the algorithm? Xayn app provides friendlier, more private web search
The author has always hated having to choose between privacy protection and convenience when searching on the Internet. Sometimes the things I have searched for once will appear one after another in the content you searched for, embedded ads in web pages, etc. It seems that everything has been seen through. The algorithm is really the secret hidden in the tool. If you attach great importance to privacy, you can try the new application “Xayn” that I will introduce to you this time.
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The Xyan app is completely based on personal settings and intuitive swiping operations, deciding which content is relevant to you, providing greater control and transparent search results. When you open the homepage or search results page, if you feel that the content or result is not relevant, just swipe left, which is equivalent to telling the AI that this is an irrelevant result. In the future, AI will also use this to filter information when searching. If you find this page relevant and want to bookmark it or share it with others, just swipe right and click on the item. If you now want to disable or enable AI, just click on the brain icon in the upper right corner of the screen. When it is gray, it means that the AI is currently turned off. When it is colored, it means that the AI is running.
After you click to enter the webpage, you can also click the call menu in the lower right corner. You can choose to open the webpage in the default browser on your phone, share it, add bookmarks, etc.
Its operating principle is very simple, that is, it runs its own search algorithm directly on the phone instead of in the cloud, so all your personal information and search records are saved on the phone itself. In this application, you can properly educate the four AIs built into the application (processing language, building interest models, setting domain preferences, and personalizing context), by learning your daily usage to filter out content that is suitable for you without being stuffed with many items that the algorithm thinks you need. If you want to turn the AI off or on, just tap the brain icon in the upper right corner. When it’s gray it means the AI is off, when it’s colored it means the AI is on.
In this application, you can also quickly click on the icon in the search results to choose to display the results of pictures, videos or news separately. The operation is very intuitive, just like you use a normal browser search. The content displayed on your homepage is automatically displayed based on your personal Internet sources or your search history.
The situation that this application will encounter is that because the filtering is too strict, it is easy for you to miss some news content, and the AI trained under personal preferences will increasingly deviate in a specific direction, but at least in this regard, it will be the best result for hobby enthusiasts.
Source: KOCPC Chinese