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Re:DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Andro... by mikorym on Monday January 13, 2020 @07:46AM (#22033934)
Can't we have an open source search engine with publicly sourced "indices"? Anyone who wants can then crawl the web and build a graph of parts of the internet. The search part and the crawling code would be open source. What's the problem?
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Re:DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Andro... by fghtr on Monday January 13, 2020 @08:43AM (#22034363)
Here you go: https://yacy.net
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Re:DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Andro... by Zhyl on Monday January 13, 2020 @08:55AM (#22034450)
What's the status with YaCy like these days? I tried installing it about 7 years ago and the results left something to be desired.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Andro... by fghtr on Monday January 13, 2020 @10:32AM (#22035275)
It is still far from being actually useful afaik. We need much more people involved I guess.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Andro... by mikorym on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:29AM (#22044157)
Apart from people, what are the main challenges to get to a stage where it is usable? My guess is that maintaining large indices is nontrivial in multiple aspects.
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