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Any private search engines that aren’t SearxNG? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I’ve gotten very into self-hosting (on device, not on a server) my own search engine, but searxng is unbearably clunky to make run on my Gentoo OpenRC machine. Two projects stuck out, 4get and omnisearch, but which of these do you think is the best and do you know other ones?

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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

YaCy isn't just a peer-to-peer search-engine, it can be run as a non-connected private node as well. The operator decides whether they want to contribute to the larger peer-to-peer network, a private network or as a lone-node as a personal search-engine. However, any search-engine will struggle on lackluster hardware.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    No one uses YaCy and no one ought to. I have a grudge against the developer for creating the worst search engine architecture known to everyone.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago*

    Clocks

    Can you expand upon this? I've tried to run YaCy before and I always seem to reach a point where the index becomes too large for my computer to handle, meaning YaCy will crash or refuse to start. I always put this down to my system not having enough ram though. Technically what do you dislike about the program?

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