… by running your own instance of the free and open-source federated metasearch engine SearXNG on OpenBSD!

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[–] 7 points 11 months ago* (5 children)

Or how about YaCy. It's self-hostable & you can have your own web index and start your own web-crawler.

It's peer-to-peer too

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    This is exactly what I came here to find. Thank you for posting it. If I can be so bold selfhosters should really be leaning this way searxng is great but it still uses big tech.

    The other thing we need is a way to identify good crawling agents or *smol agents over corporate bots that just steal content.

    If selfhosters can unite and build a good index perhaps searching can go back to the way it was vs a vector to sell you more and collect your data.

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