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Re:Brave launches private search ads by heywoodlh on Thursday December 01, 2022 @10:27PM (#33826386)
I'm not a fan of ads at all. But I am curious, is there an alternative way to provide a free service while still making money?

Unrelated, it would be cool to be able to self host an actual search engine (not talking about privacy-focused front ends like Searx -- but I'm grateful for projects like it) without having to store petabytes of data. Is there a self-hostable search engine alternative that doesn't just use another backend search engine service like Bing?

Re:Brave launches private search ads by bishplsok on Thursday December 01, 2022 @11:04PM (#33826633)
Actually Useful(tm) result out of the recent influx of AI hype -- "search engine" trained on, by and large, how people recommend links on sites like Reddit. It's a little hit or miss in my experience still, but when it hits it's legitimately brilliant, and mostly avoids the "Google search results are useless and dominated by SEO-farm garbage" issue.

https://metaphor.systems/

Re:Brave launches private search ads by heywoodlh on Thursday December 01, 2022 @11:19PM (#33826715)
Whoa, this is really cool! Is it self-hostable/open source?