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Re:Applebot by Polylactic_acid on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @03:33AM (#24339388)
Yacy is about as useful as searching the internet with grep. You can search "Facebook" and the first 20 pages are foreign spam blogs that have the word facebook on them.
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Re:Applebot by tennineeight on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @09:30AM (#24341523)
way back in 00s, Google felt exactly like grepping the whole internet, including niche blogs, minus the spam (for the most part).

Somewhere in between, Google stopped caring, and we have what we have today.

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Re:Applebot by square_usual on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @05:36AM (#24339969)
They're definitely not great but they're a good place to start.
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Re:Applebot by spiderfarmer on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @03:50AM (#24339489)
And Searx is only useful in English or so it seems.
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