• Rollade@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

    I’m in the process of replacing everything big tech with local services, from TV and streaming to even the search engine and it’s just so much better lmao

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        11 days ago

        Meta search engines exist such as searxng but self hosted full blow search engine with your own crawler I doubt it

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        11 days ago

        There are two types yacy which uses search results of user that use it and index them (from what I understood) and searXNGwhitch anonymise search requests to the search engine of your choice and presets you the result without ads or  paid bias

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          It sure would be nice if Yacy actually, you know, worked. Last time I tried it – which, admittedly, was a very long time ago – the search results it returned weren’t just irrelevant, they were in cyrillic or something. Maybe I needed to let it run longer to build up connections to more peers or something, IDK, but it definitely didn’t give me the impression that it was even slightly usable in any way.