Gregory's ServerWaiting for someone to make an artisanal search engine that only indexes manually verified websites written by humans. Farm-to-table organic search results, handmade with 100% certified human creativity, like your grandparents told you about.
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@andybaio Ah! This is it! YaCy: https://yacy.net You'll need to curate the list yourself, but the softer for crawling and searching is packed easily enough to try out. I've tried it locally before. Bit of a faff to maintain the site curation. I seem to remember taking a whole evening and maybe a sleep to get my head around the UI. @andybaio I just tried the Docker version. It defaults to a peer-to-peer index i.e. it's currently pulling in others' indexes. I don't know the validity of that index but looking at the search results page, there's a Peer-to-Peer/Privacy toggle for the results, which lets you keep your searches to an index of your own. I've totally forgotten how to set up a private index though.  @andybaio Here's Lieu: https://lieu.cblgh.org I manually verified every single application, Lieu only crawls these web pages. @neauoire hello! I was poking around on this search engine and I found that there are some webring member sites that are not indexed (mine included). May I ask what is the criteria for not being indexed? @roytang Just that the website be online I think. Your website is 502 at the moment.  @neauoire @andybaio ye i built precisely that in 2021 :) code's here if u want to tinker  @andybaio SEO products and engineers and users should be discouraged from doing so in the most severe manner that is not considered violence or removing rights without due process.  @andybaio a *long* time ago I set up a mirror of DMOZ and started (slowly) crawling the content of the websites within it with the intent to build a full-text search facility but ran out of time and resources so I would find such a thing interesting @andybaio a browser extension that lets one upvote or maybe even downvote a URL for inclusion in search indexing. π€ |
Judging from all the βthatβs Yahooβ replies, it seems like many people have forgotten the difference between a directory and a search engine?
A directory is an organized list of websites (e.g. Yahoo, DMOZ, ooh.directory), while a search engine usually searches the text of web pages (e.g. Google).
I want a *search engine* that crawls and searches pages from a curated list of websites (which could be a directory). Marginalia is the closest Iβve seen. https://search.marginalia.nu/