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A look at search engines with their own indexes (seirdy.one)
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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Consider self-hosting SearXNG, which can aggregate results and filter.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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).

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