Not a technical person, as I understand it, Google and Bing are full search engines while options like Seaexng, Ecosia, Duckduckgo are meta search engine that depend on Google or Bing. Are there other search engines that are fully independent, and if there aren’t, what are the barriers that stop other search engines from emerging

  • ambitiousslab@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 days ago

    There’s also YaCy, which is a peer-to-peer search engine. You index whatever you want, and when you search, you connect to lots of other indices as well as your own.

    I want to set up my own node at some point. My understanding is that the search results are hit and miss, but you have the power to improve things by building your own index of pages you want to search regularly. And this benefits everyone else too.

    Since search indexing is so intensive, I think it’s the right technical solution if you want a truly open and independent alternative.

    • Twoafros@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Thanks for sharing! This my first time hearing about YaCy. Im always excited about peer to peer, and I hope this or a similar solution grows in popularity. About to try it now!