Been playing around with YACY more lately since the DDG fiasco last week. True P2P decentralized search engine. Its far from perfect but a nice change of pace from what we consider a typical "search engine". Similar to Marginalia's engine it doesnt care about SEO and instead is indexes in an entirely different way . You as a user actually host a peer instance on your own hardware and can add new pages to the search engine through your own peers web-crawler. Each user can influence the search engines top results by manually marking sites that are relevant to the search query. Again its not perfect but a pretty good example of what a true decentralized engine looks like. Im happy to have it as an option.
2 years ago 路 馃憤 mntn, gnuserland, tigercarnival
nice, I have been looking for something like this for a very long time!
You can't trust a web search engine, there is a huge bias in action: users and the search engines owners have different goals.
Everything ends up with the search engines showing what is more convenient for theirs owners very likely. 路 2 years ago
https://community.searchlab.eu/t/yacy-as-a-news-search-engine/904 路 2 years ago
https://community.searchlab.eu/t/yacy-as-a-news-search-engine/904
@mntn saw an awesome suggestion which was to add YACY to a searx instance, Ive been considering hosting a searx instance that aggregates from YACY and aforementioned marginalia.nu https://community.searchlab.eu/t/mobile-yacy-lite/982 路 2 years ago
https://community.searchlab.eu/t/mobile-yacy-lite/982
I will have to try it again, last time I used it was years ago and it wasn't too great back then. I'm sure it has improved. If nothing else, at least the recent search manipulation has galvanized people to build functional alternatives. Google and Bing (and let's face it, DDG is still mostly Bing) is an unacceptable duopoly. 路 2 years ago