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A look at search engines with their own indexes (seirdy.one)
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[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (2 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.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days 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.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

I really like Yacy's results, personally. It seems good for the kinds of sites I care about. My biggest problem with it is that the newest version is so memory-hungry.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

SearXNG is a meta search entirely reliant on other services.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 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.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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).

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, long term goal is a self reliant total internet experience. I figure at best, I'll still have to rely on a handful of more trustworthy companies to do some things like search.