This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time

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• appel@whiskers.bim.boats ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So have many others, except they didn’t start a company based on it. As soon as it is part of a company, it is no longer free and open

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• peter@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What are the actual reasonable outcomes here:

  1. The search engine becomes successful and requires monetization to pay for the hosting/indexing costs
  2. The search engine does not become successful and the ever increasing cost of indexing the entire internet forces monetization or shut down
  3. You self host your own version, in which case you need to start indexing yourself (see problem #2)

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  • immortaly007@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think what would be interesting is to get everyone who self hosts this do part of the indexing. As in, find some way to split the indexing over self-hosted instances running this search engine. Then make sure “the internet” is divided somewhat reasonably. Kind of what crypto does, but instead producing the indexes instead of nothing.

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• key@lemmy.keychat.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  github.com/StractOrg/stract

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• UmbraTemporis@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ok, now, to make this the be-all and end-all of search engines…

  Can it be self-hosted?

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  • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looks like it from the readme…they give instructions for “setting it up locally”

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    • UmbraTemporis@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Amazing, will try this out on the Pi then.

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  • perishthethought@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the github page linked in this post:

    We recommend everyone to use the hosted version at stract.com, but you can also follow the steps outlined in CONTRIBUTING.md to setup the engine locally.

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