Ask HN: If you hate Google 2022, why not making your Google 2012?

Posted by frozencell on Saturday August 06, 2022 @04:29PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Most of the source code of Google 2022 seem to be on Github separated (PageRank, MapReduce, Freebase, Graphd, etc.). Why isn't there no unified open source 2012 Google-like search engine?

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Re:Ask HN: If you hate Google 2022, why not making your Goog... by fsflover on Saturday August 06, 2022 @05:30PM (#32371744)

https://yacy.net

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Re:Ask HN: If you hate Google 2022, why not making your Goog... by ffhhj on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:13PM (#32372450)

Why following the same steps in the wrong direction?

When future search engines begin receiving feedback from users and ranking accordingly Google will become irrelevant.

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Re:Ask HN: If you hate Google 2022, why not making your Goog... by tkiolp4 on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:22PM (#32372505)

To compete with Google you can’t just use their legacy tech (pagerank, mapreduce, etc.), you have to come with a better tech.

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Re:Ask HN: If you hate Google 2022, why not making your Goog... by freemint on Saturday August 06, 2022 @08:21PM (#32372772)

If the legacy code runs faster on modern hardware then the modern code, wouldn't that be a competitive advantage?

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Re:Ask HN: If you hate Google 2022, why not making your Goog... by ffhhj on Sunday August 07, 2022 @12:26PM (#32377663)

There are probably much better optimized algos nowadays, and new tech will require a different way to store and retrieve data.

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Re:Ask HN: If you hate Google 2022, why not making your Goog... by waterfallr on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:10PM (#32372432)

I don’t hate google but Google is not just search, it’s an ecosystem. OS, browser, email, search etc.

Wrt to Search,

Scale: Huge cost of infrastructure, data is privatize.

You could run a hobby scale pagerank but for searching web it would be a needle in a haystack.

They have competition like yandex, nacy, baidu but are not for English web and not open source

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Re:Ask HN: If you hate Google 2022, why not making your Goog... by jfoster on Sunday August 07, 2022 @03:52AM (#32374728)

In 2022, Android & Chrome are the most valuable pieces of Google.

For instance, if Microsoft controlled them, they could just point the search functionality toward Bing, and most users mightn't even notice.

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Re:Ask HN: If you hate Google 2022, why not making your Goog... by 8note on Sunday August 07, 2022 @03:15AM (#32374556)

Running indexes and crawlers is expensive and google has monopoly power on monetizing them

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Re:Ask HN: If you hate Google 2022, why not making your Goog... by scottmcdot on Sunday August 07, 2022 @08:20AM (#32375900)

Can we give up our CPU during off peak hours to contribute to crawling? I would do this in return for a Google 2012.

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Re:Ask HN: If you hate Google 2022, why not making your Goog... by is_true on Sunday August 07, 2022 @08:21AM (#32375910)

I think that the next search engine is gonna be a service that has an advantage using a technique to identify quality content and ditching the rest, most of the internet is just noise.

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Re:Ask HN: If you hate Google 2022, why not making your Goog... by speedgoose on Sunday August 07, 2022 @02:12AM (#32374294)

I don’t have the resource to run a 2012 search engine. Even with the CommonCrawl dataset, it’s extremely expensive and also not environmental friendly.

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