Interview with the Engineer of Uruky, a Privacy Search Engine
Bruno, the engineer behind the privacy-focused search engine Uruky, discusses his motivations and background in a recent interview. He emphasizes the importance of privacy and the need for sustainable ethical software solutions. Uruky operates on a subscription model, aiming to provide users with a viable alternative to free search engines like DuckDuckGo.
- ▪Bruno's interest in privacy began around 2016 when he realized the importance of having private spaces.
- ▪He has a background in programming and has contributed to various privacy tools, including Signal and Kagi.
- ▪Uruky aims to prove that ethical software can be developed as a sustainable business.
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Interview with the Engineer of Uruky, a Private Search Engine 21 May, 2026 This post was last edited 0 minutes ago. PreambleBruno reached out to me mid-April with a suggestion to check out his privacy-first search engine tool Uruky. Uruky works on a subscription model, but one of my kids and I were able to test it out for free for a couple of months. I normally do not test privacy tools on request, but rather focus on describing tools I've discovered myself and already use in daily life. Yet the email conversation between us evolved into quite a warm exchange about his projects, my blog, networks and privacy tools in general. Bruno, being a software engineer, helped me better understand how local networks work, which led to my article about running a Monero node.
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