Im noticing its harder and harder to find things on google. Searching for a companies quarterly profits, cost of medical care for all per capita, and othet economic details are all getting more and more buried in google. Just asking how other contries do their social programs results in us based opionion articles…like wtf are we even doing.
I understand scrolling and indexing sites is an enormous undertaking. Is there currently a federated open source search engine? If not is their a potential to create one?
Is there a trustworthy private option?
Mojeek?
A whole bunch of alternatives here, a few federated, quite a few open source:
https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/
(Found via https://marginalia-search.com/ )
Thank you! Thats a hell of a big list!
You’re welcome. I’m still trying out a few, including Yep and the SearchXNG instance that comes built into Firedragon browser.
Damn you guys sure have a big list of search engines
YaCy Marginalia.nu
This probably doesn’t help immediately, but I’ve been working on a platform that does federated search (among other things) for the last year. It’s in private friends-and-family testing and won’t be available for general use for at least a couple more months.
I haven’t even decided on a name yet, but I promise to make a lot of noise about it once it’s in public beta
I haven’t even decided on a name yet
Cheeky: Fedderccini, feddiserch
Better: LookN4
Foogle
Seems to be using searXNG. Routes the search query to different instances
yes, lot of folks dont know where to start with searxng so this is nice and simple and just works
Awsome thank you!
This is actually super cool.
I gotta shout out trom when I can, they’re doing great work
wow, thanks for sharing, that’s awesome
Maybe Stract?
It’s open source and has its own search index.
Here’s one Mwmbl
There is yacy
It’s not the most accurate but you can help by adding a server or client to the mix.I’ve taken a couple of shots at yacy, but have little luck. It’s possible to self host a searxng in docker that uses almost no resources. I use a server, but a buddy literally has it load on startup in his Windows.
Ill give this a shot! Thanks for the recommendation!
