EU Open Web Search project kicked off

Re:EU Open Web Search project kicked off by cookiengineer on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @05:20PM (#32917942)

Isn't searx what you're describing? I was running an instance for a while, and it's basically a meta search engine that has support for all kinds of providers.

There are also some web extensions available so that you can fill it with more data.

[1] https://searx.github.io/searx/

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Re:EU Open Web Search project kicked off by vindarel on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @06:36PM (#32918695)

I'd say it rather looks like Seeks, unfortunately defunkt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeks

> a decentralized p2p websearch and collaborative tool.

> It relies on a distributed collaborative filter[6] to let users personalize and share their preferred results on a search.

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Re:EU Open Web Search project kicked off by boyter on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @06:35PM (#32918689)

Searx is half of it where it calls out to other searches but does not provide its own index as far as I can see. It also does not remix the results.

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Re:EU Open Web Search project kicked off by cookiengineer on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @01:03AM (#32920983)

If it is about a decentralized index there's also YaCy.net [1] but I don't know how actively maintained the project is.

For me it made more of an enterprise-grade use case (e.g. for building a search for your own file servers or confluence) so I only tested it out a little. It's a huge java project, that's why I decided to go with searx back then...cause yacy was pretty hard to setup.

[1] https://github.com/yacy

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