Re:Show HN: Ichido, search engine that tags sites using Goog...
by Santosh83 on Sunday February 26, 2023 @12:01PM
(#34947076)
I think Yandex have their own index and some others too like Marginalia, but the latter couldn't be called "in the same category" as the other three.
Re:Show HN: Ichido, search engine that tags sites using Goog...
by kkielhofner on Sunday February 26, 2023 @02:17PM
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Yandex also suffered a security breach and their source code is available[0] although utilizing it in any way is ethically and legally dubious (at best).
[0] - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/massi...
Re:Show HN: Ichido, search engine that tags sites using Goog...
by antonok on Sunday February 26, 2023 @01:06PM
(#34947687)
Brave Search has its own independent index too - https://brave.com/brave-search-beta/
Re:Show HN: Ichido, search engine that tags sites using Goog...
by quectophoton on Sunday February 26, 2023 @03:17PM
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> Pretty sure that only Google and Microsoft have the money and resources to crawl the entire internet. Or perhaps the only that can AND are willing to.
Money and resources and a dominant-enough position so that your crawlers are not blocked by websites.
Unfortunately.
Re:Show HN: Ichido, search engine that tags sites using Goog...
by rezonant on Sunday February 26, 2023 @05:08PM
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There's definitely gatekeeping on websites but having done a bunch of crawler work I can say you'd be surprised how rarely a site will outright block you if you just do the right things: have an identifiable user agent with a working URL that explains what your crawler does, respect robots.txt, implement polite crawling. As for actually being able to crawl the whole thing though, yeah it's stupidly expensive :-/
Re:Show HN: Ichido, search engine that tags sites using Goog...
by daoudc on Sunday February 26, 2023 @05:25PM
(#34950262)
Mwmbl has its own index but it's orders of magnitude smaller than commercial search engines.
Re:Show HN: Ichido, search engine that tags sites using Goog...
by schemescape on Sunday February 26, 2023 @09:34PM
(#34952272)
What about Common Crawl?
Correct me if I’m wrong though, but I’m pretty certain that all other search engines in the same category use one of these as their backend. Eg I’m pretty certain that counts for duckduckgo as well.