fourmizzz, to random French
@fourmizzz@mamot.fr avatar

Vous utilisez quoi comme moteur de recherche au quotidien ?

Widowild1,
@Widowild1@mastodon.xyz avatar

@fourmizzz J’utilise @mojeek , DDG et #yacy

Widowild1, to random French
@Widowild1@mastodon.xyz avatar

Bientôt 2 milliards d’URL sur le réseau de 🥹, sur mon petit serveur synology j’en suis à 7,4 millions

gsa, to Synology French
@gsa@mastodon.social avatar

C'est comme une drogue, on commence par acheter quelques disques durs et puis très vite on veut des SSD, un hot spare, etc.

Widowild1,
@Widowild1@mastodon.xyz avatar

@gsa Idem j’ai commencé par du 1To par disque dur et je commence par remplacer par du 14To, je viens de remplacer mes deux SSD de 1To (durée de vie: 2 ans) ils n’ont pas aimé le crawler sur

Losing My Mind GIF

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

is an open source crawler that you can run and feed Searx with. I recall some searx instances that run their own YaCy. YaCy can also share indexes with other YaCy instances.

Widowild1, to random French
@Widowild1@mastodon.xyz avatar

Je me lance dans une instance , et ça commence à prendre de la place en 2 jours de test j’en suis à 12 go et + 1 millions d’URL récoltés.

amanjeev, to web

What search engines are you using these days? Asking for

  • non-tech searches
  • tech/programming related searches

What's working for you?

digitalRightsNinja,

@Mojeek
Out of curiosity, does use YaCy indexes?

IIUC, users each do their own indexing but then that index is shared among each other. Does mojeek participate in that at all?

@amanjeev

zaclys, to random French
@zaclys@mastodon.zaclys.com avatar

En présentant https://zoTop.fr nos discussions ici nous ont amené à souhaiter encore mieux, un moteur de recherche libre et open source, avec son propre index, totalement indépendant et qui n'appartienne à personne. Pour ça il faut un outil à base d'instances comme Mastodon, PeerTube, etc...

Bonne nouvelle, il existe ! C'est !

Il faut juste qu'il soit connu pour que plein d'instances voient le jour et que ça fonctionne de façon optimale.

Exemple : https://yacy.searchlab.eu/yacysearch.html?query=zaclys

kzimmermann, to security
@kzimmermann@fosstodon.org avatar

Every now and then, I stumble into something that reminds me how in has completely backfired as a concept from the user's point of view.

After decades of frustration and cat-and-mouse games of advice, antivirus and security software and everything else, you'd have thought that its userbase would've become street-smart.

But it didn't. Given the goal users simply click OK despite any and all warnings, even following instructions, like this benign example from .

markgrieveson, to privacy

I just discovered this while stumbling around:

https://yacy.net/

YaCy is free software, under the terms of the GPL 2.0, that provides a decentralized search engine. It runs on a peer-to-peer network.

Generally I've used DuckDuckGo, but this sounds even more interesting.

It may turn out to be a dud (occasionally these things are), but, I'll try it out to see.

walterebert, to fediverse
@walterebert@social.walterebert.com avatar

Visiting again. This year I will be talking about and in the room.

tomw, (edited ) to random
@tomw@mastodon.social avatar

We really haven't reckoned with how broken Google is.

The only alternatives anyone ever suggests are all reskins of Bing – also useless.

Edit: Do not reply suggesting Duckduckgo, yes it has a few bells and whistles but its web search results are still sourced from Bing.

LukasBrausch,
@LukasBrausch@mastodontech.de avatar

@tomw @orbiterlab If I remember correctly, the result quality should correlate with the amount of users (i.e. running instances). Maybe the whole project just needs more users and / or publicity.

jonny, to random
@jonny@social.coop avatar

today I think I'm going to set up and see if I can sync it with my Firefox bookmarks as crawl nodes.

with dying, I think social crawling is a really rad possibility - I have a bunch of bookmarks that I know to be good sources of information/good things, so do my friends. Maybe I can also mark pages as LLM generated and signal to others to downrank them. I wonder if we could link fedi accounts to YaCy.

Not sure if that's how YaCy works out of the box, but want to check it out.

strypey, to random

@zeh @alcinnz
>have been seeing the worse results from duckduckgo

We're not the only ones who have been complaining about this recently. I was very happy with DDG for years and I still really like the fact that I can search the Free Software Directory by adding !fsd to my keywords. But their general search results have gone massively downhill in the last year or two, and I blame Bing.

digitalRightsNinja,

@strypey @zeh @alcinnz

Indeed mojeek.com is not the only non-tech-giant (+crawler). From strypey’s mentions + some of my notes:

is notable because it’s a crawler that you can install and operate yourself. YaCy instances can be public-facing and they can also share indexes with each other fedi style apparently. Some Searx instances tap YaCy instances.

I would love to find a searx or 4get instance that rejects the tech giants, but aggregates from YaCy, mojeek, gigablast, metager, maginalia.nu, frogfind.com, & wiby.me.

And I would love it even more if it would make replacements:

search.fabiomanganiello.com makes some of those replacements.

dsfgs, to random

YOU'RE AN who doesn't want to die a mysterious premature death. Have you considered at work?

The Invisible Internet Protocol has great tools that don't require javascript, from tools to a mirror (http://stackoverflow.i2p) to search services like , and and more. There's little reason to leave I2P, with repos, and , to boot.

Innovate while being — avoid being targetted for your .

retiolus, to random
@retiolus@mamot.fr avatar

Has anyone tried it and has an opinion on the search engine?

https://yacy.net/

gbhnews, to fediverse
@gbhnews@mastodon.social avatar

👋 Hello ! I'm going into a meeting at 4ET to talk about our newsroom's social media options.

If you think our station and other stations should have a Mastodon server or a broader presence in the , pls boost this post. If you have thoughts, please reply, I want to hear them!

jakob,

@strypey

Federated searchengines... do you know ?

Each instanz should run it's own yacy-Instance too. This should be configured this way, that it indexes fulltext the whole instance (or all fedivers-services of a domain with holds more than one service)
You can find the whole fulltext-index of the whole fediverse via federation of yacy...

several@edendestroyer@masto.ai @anildash @cragsand

kubikpixel, (edited ) to internet German
@kubikpixel@chaos.social avatar

Jetzt wo ihr alle auf eine und offene Plattform für gewechselt seid, das , könnt ihr z.B. bei den weiter machen.

🔎 @MetaGer
🔎 @Mojeek
🔎 @monocles
🔎 https://gruble.de

Ne du, so was wie , & liefern Daten ihrer Crawler wie (M$) und/oder . Pseudonymisiert ist nicht anonym, denn die sind vertraglich dazu verpflichtet.

kubikpixel,
@kubikpixel@chaos.social avatar

🧵 …in keinem der Toots oben hatte ich mich um YaCy Websuche gekümmert. Ich hatte vor Jahren mal ausprobiert aber funktioniere meiner Meinung nach nicht gut genug. Doch nun hatte der Entwickler den Projekt zustand und seine Historie so wie Funktionalität und Zukunft erklärt.
Danke @orbiterlab, ich werde nun damit um es zu testen und zu verstehen. Das Spannende daran ist, es ist dezentral App und hat ein wenig mit @MetaGer zu tun, Details im Link:

✌️ https://community.searchlab.eu/t/yacy-vor-20-jahren/1543

badrihippo, to foss
@badrihippo@fosstodon.org avatar

Hello everyone!

I use Xubuntu and try to go the way as much as possible :duckduckgo: :gimp: :firefox: :xubuntu: :fdroid: :nextcloud:

I've been using Diaspora and the Friendica for a while—now decided to give Mastodon a go!

Also trying to get my friends to join the (though that's a slow process 😕).

farooqkz,
@farooqkz@blackrock.city avatar

@badrihippo

Hey is not , but is a decentralized and open source

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