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Re: "For anyone here who uses SearXNG, I made a request to get..."
If YaCy is added to a searXNG instance, it would be useless technically to YaCy's goals technically? As YaCy would get no feed positive or negative link ratings, which wouldn't help YaCy. Is that correct?
2023-10-11 · 5 months ago
😎 Smokey [OP] · Oct 11 at 23:16:
sort of. It would be best if everyone set up their own yacy instance or used the official public one. users using searxng would not be able to affect ranking.
however searxng putting yacy in helps draw attention and get people started with using it. most people don't know it exist, or don't know the public instance exist (in part because their website links to the publoc instance status page indtead of the search home page which confuses new people). I believe its mutually beneficial yacy gets a chance to attract new users who wouldnt access it otherwise and searxng gets a new truely open search engine to aggregate in the case where instances don't want to use google or bing bases engines.
For anyone here who uses SearXNG, I made a request to get YaCy added to list of indexable search engines, and they merged it in today! YaCy is an independent search engine based off unique peer-to-peer decentralized webcrawling technology. Anyone can download a YaCy instance to host locally and contribute to the collective engine. You can also use it to index local intranets.