Pre-Alpha
Pre-Alpha
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RaccoonShift is aimed to bring you a search experience that should be private, fast and rich, and customizable so you can tailor it to your preferences. It serves as a metasearch engine that gathers results from other popular search engines, delivering them to you while shielding your identity to keep private information like IP address and search habits away from prying eyes.
When you browse the web, your device is assigned a unique IP address that can be used to track your activities. RaccoonShift will proxy content by default to automatically send requests through the servers first, then send you the content such as favicons, images, and more.
Leverage the Dumpster Dive feature to safely investigate any website before you click. Get a quick report with a screenshot, customer reviews, reputation data, and other critical insights to quickly access if it's trustworthy to visit. All without leaving the search.
You won't be littered with ridiculous things like annoying pop ups, banners, AI, advertisements, trackers, and other shenanigans. RaccoonShift aims to provide a clean, uninterrupted experience.
Create with RaccoonShift Scout by retrieving an API Key and integrating it's REST API into your application. Request API Key
RaccoonShift is a project by SudoVanilla that is still in its early stages of development. Many components of RaccoonShift are unfinished and may change at any time. Functions, features, designs, and other elements are not yet finalized. Users should anticipate bugs and potential issues, as the project may not be stable during this early phase.
The early release is intended to let users test the project, helping SudoVanilla identify and fix bugs throughout the development process.
RaccoonShift is owned, created, and operated by one entity which is SudoVanilla. No other companies, 3rd-parties, or other individuals control the product.
SudoVanilla is a skilled and motivated developer, an individual, who works in frontend development.
No. RaccoonShift does not accept advertisements of any kind. I promise, you'll never see any sort of advertisements on here as the focus is to provide a clean and uninterrupted experience.
No, AI features are not planned for RaccoonShift. The creator of RaccoonShift, SudoVanilla, has a standing policy against the use of AI in any SudoVanilla projects and products.
No. When making a query request to RaccoonShift, results will be returned from already existing indexes such as Brave Search, Google, Pexels, Peertube, DuckDuckGo, etc. For each type of search you want to make, you can change the index that you're using, DuckDuckGo is default for web searches.
Click on the Filter icon that's between the search bar and search button at the top of the page and you can change the index from there.
No. Although quite an unusual thing actually for SudoVanilla to launch a proprietary product, as all previous projects that were developed are open sourced. RaccoonShift, along with it's REST API, are proprietary and closed source.
There are plans to open source RaccoonShift by mid-2026 or at least 2027.
RaccoonShift doesn't share anything else like your IP address or location. There is no way for a site to know you're the one searching for the query you put in. RaccoonShift does not and never will serve advertisements or 3rd-party JavaScript applets or trackers.
RaccoonShift does not host any of the content that is shown here such as images, web results, videos, music, etc. All data you see is proxied through the SudoVanilla Web Server and no moderation in place. Instead, reach out to the people, organization, or company that is hosting the infringing content.
To help out RaccoonShift and it's mission, I would recommend sharing to friends about using it as their new default search engine. You can also donate to SudoVanilla via Ko-Fi to help help with the development process and keep servers running, would be much appreciated.
To help with understanding how users interact with RaccoonShift, you can also opt-in to RaccoonShift Spot. It is used to track certain events on how you interact with the product, all events such menu interactions, pages you navigate to, settings you toggle, and filters used. This won't track your searches and all requests are anonymous, it can't profile you. RaccoonShift Spot is integrated with privacy in-mind.