A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.
  • Digitalprimate@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    That was a good read, well done! I’d be interested if you ever reconsider Startpage. I’ve had good success with that on my work computer.

  • tuckerm@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    Great list! I’ve been wanting to start using a smaller search engine with its own index, just for the sake of making sure there’s an alternative to GBY. (Also, there’s a new and useful acronym, haha.) Mojeek was the only one I was aware of before today.

    BTW, exalead.com doesn’t seem to be a search engine anymore. I recognized that one because I remember discovering it a while ago…in 2007, maybe? But it looks like it’s not available as a regular search engine now.

    edit: Also, this is the first really useful page I’ve read via the Gemini protocol, so thanks for that!

  • sorghum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Looks like for the hardware requirements for self hosting some of the open source options, I’ll be saving up quite a bit for SSDs.

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      1 day ago

      FWIW, I gave YaCy a try a while back, and I agree with the article on that one. Shit tier results that make ancient AltaVista look good. Might be fine for intranet search. I like the idea of its distributed hosting, but pass on this one.

      Other poster mentioned SearXNG, and while I haven’t delved into that too much, it’s probably worth a check. Pass on YaCy.

      • sorghum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Already am, but it still pulls results from the companies I want to separate myself from. I’d rather see what it takes/how well it performs to have my own indexer.

        • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
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          22 hours ago

          Good luck with that one. It takes a lot of resources from my limited and aged experience, and I’m sure it’s more now. Might be worth focusing the indexer on a topic area to start, just to get a feel for sizing (if your chosen solution supports that).

          • sorghum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            16 hours ago

            Yeah, long term goal is a self reliant total internet experience. I figure at best, I’ll still have to rely on a handful of more trustworthy companies to do some things like search.

  • Glitchvid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Great article, appreciate that I’m not the only one concerned around some of the ethical choices Kagi has been making.

    • Jack_Burton@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I got a sub to Kagi a few months ago. It seems pretty good but I’m behind on the news. I’ve read a few things here and there, but can you explain a bit about the ethics?

      • Glitchvid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Last I saw they still paid Yandex for access to that index (weigh how important that is yourself), they also pushed back on suicide warnings if you ask Kagi how to kill yourself, and I learned from this article that they may be using additional data sources that contain higher levels of homophobic sentiment.

        Basically, the company’s tagline is “Humanize the Web”, but I don’t think their actions thus far show we agree on what Humanize means.

        • Jack_Burton@lemmy.caEnglish
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          1 day ago

          Yeah, definitely something to keep an eye on. Might not renew and just start using Qwant.