I worked on a HyperHDR build and wanted to make it a more permanent part of our living room setup. This escalated to setting up a Jellyfin media server and backing up all of our physical media. Hyp...
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
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.
Is there a local self hosted search engine?
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
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.
Meta search engines exist such as searxng but self hosted full blow search engine with your own crawler I doubt it
I know of Yacy and Wiby. If I recall correctly Wiby is a bit more specialized and not meant to crawl the whole web.