HANNOVER, Germany, August 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
MetaGer, Germany's most popular
meta search engine for the internet, has made its source code
public, allowing its user community not only to verify its data
protection and security features but also to contribute to
MetaGer's future developments.
Run by German NGO 'SUMA-EV - Association for Free Access to
Knowledge', MetaGer originally evolved from the Leibniz University
of Hannover, its software has been
placed under GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (GNU AGPL v3) as
defined here:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Affero_General_Public_License
and
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0
MetaGer's source code has been placed in its entirety in a
public repository located at:
https://gitlab.metager3.de/open-source/MetaGer. The only elements
missing from the code are authentication details relating to
MetaGer's meta-crawled sources search engines as these are subject
to non-disclosure agreements.
"MetaGer is all about protecting the privacy of its users. By
offering open-source access to its source code, the online
community can now verify for itself that MetaGer does not store any
data about its users", says MetaGer director Dr. Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann.
Offered in the German (http://metager.de) and English language
(http://metager.net), MetaGer treats searches submitted by its
users as anonymous from an early stage; IP addresses are neither
recorded nor stored, and information is not passed on to other
search engines. Cooperations have been established with most
of the global Internet search engines, with news search provided by
internet news portal One News Page (http://www.onenewspage.com/)
being a recent addition. The search engine does not collect
private data and the servers are located exclusively in
Germany. They are fully covered
under Germany's data protection
laws, which are considered to be the strictest worldwide. MetaGer
is recommended as the first choice for a search engine by the
German "Foundation for the Protection of Privacy"
(http://stiftungdatenschutz.org/praxistipps/), which was founded by
the Federal Republic of Germany.
Media Contact:
MetaGer-Team
SUMA-EV Secretariat:
Röselerstr. 3, D-30159 Hannover
Germany
Tel: 0049-(0)511-34000070
e-mail: office@suma-ev.de
Managing Director and Member of the Board:
Dr. Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann
Röselerstr. 3, D-30159 Hannover
Germany
Tel: 0049-(0)511-34000071
e-mail: wsb@suma-ev.de
About SUMA-EV
SUMA is an abbreviation of the German word for search engine
(SUchMAschine). SUMA-EV is a registered non-profit association and
has been committed to the free access to knowledge since 2004:
uncensored, unfiltered, and without commercial or government
control. Among other services, SUMA-EV operates the most popular
German meta search engine 'MetaGer' and promotes alternatives to
the global businesses. Since 2007 SUMA-EV has hosted the SUMA
Awards, at which projects that are judged to be outstanding for the
future of digital knowledge are acknowledged.
Links:
http://metager.net
http://metager.de
http://suma-ev.de
SOURCE One News Page Ltd