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Tobias Hellgren

@vkc I want to self host a search engine that uses its own index, would be nice if the index was federated also

24 July at 16:59 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.chuggybumba.com
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Veronica Explains

@thanius That would be a fantastic project. I know of plenty of self-hosted search options but none that are so comprehensive.

24 July at 16:59 | Open on linuxmom.net
Tobias Hellgren

@vkc Yeah, I was excited over Searxng until I read that it was just a meta searcher, still reliant on other engines.

24 July at 17:03 | Open on mastodon.chuggybumba.com
Alexander Bochmann

@vkc @thanius YaCy has existed since forever, bit it's basically useless. (Federated) Index quality and search results are laughable.

Last time I tried to run an instance maybe two years ago, I spent most of my time on spam filter rules and site exclusions and still didn't get anywhere.

(jort.link/yacy.net)

24 July at 17:37 | Open on mastodon.infra.de
Tobias Hellgren

@galaxis Yeah, YaCy is not worth the hassle. I imagine that there will be search engines in the future based off interests, for example technology. Then when I use that engine I get mostly the results I expect, and the rest should federate over the network. Users should be able to report and score the results which would improve quality over time.
Just spitballing here.

@vkc

24 July at 17:56 | Open on mastodon.chuggybumba.com
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