Quick question, what would federation provide? How would they have anything to do with a search engine?
Do you mean just not centralized/run by big tech? If so, that wouldn’t necessarily be “federated”, but just self hostable. That way you can host it yourself, if you have the know how/equipment, or you can access someone else’s hosted version (probably for a price).
to help distribute indexing and prevent any one server from getting it’s crawlers blocked. Every search engine server contributes to one another in the federation, and when you search it might hit other servers
Quick question, what would federation provide? How would they have anything to do with a search engine?
Do you mean just not centralized/run by big tech? If so, that wouldn’t necessarily be “federated”, but just self hostable. That way you can host it yourself, if you have the know how/equipment, or you can access someone else’s hosted version (probably for a price).
to help distribute indexing and prevent any one server from getting it’s crawlers blocked. Every search engine server contributes to one another in the federation, and when you search it might hit other servers