Im noticing its harder and harder to find things on google. Searching for a companies quarterly profits, cost of medical care for all per capita, and othet economic details are all getting more and more buried in google. Just asking how other contries do their social programs results in us based opionion articles…like wtf are we even doing.

I understand scrolling and indexing sites is an enormous undertaking. Is there currently a federated open source search engine? If not is their a potential to create one?

Is there a trustworthy private option?

  • squinky@lemm.eeEnglish
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    14 days ago

    This probably doesn’t help immediately, but I’ve been working on a platform that does federated search (among other things) for the last year. It’s in private friends-and-family testing and won’t be available for general use for at least a couple more months.

    I haven’t even decided on a name yet, but I promise to make a lot of noise about it once it’s in public beta

      • breadguyyyyyyy@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        14 days ago

        yes, lot of folks dont know where to start with searxng so this is nice and simple and just works

    • Flagstaff@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      Great product, but why did they pick such a terrible domain? This is hard to remember. Search engines built their empires off of easily memorized names, which is an excellent model to follow.

      Update: Oh, I see, it’s all based on trom.tf. That’s quite the range of services… seems way too ambitious to be sustainable, though, especially the YouTube competitor…

    • Flagstaff@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      Great product, but why did they pick such a terrible domain? This is hard to remember. Search engines built their empires off of easily memorized names, which is an excellent model to follow.

  • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    15 days ago

    There is yacy
    It’s not the most accurate but you can help by adding a server or client to the mix.

    • phanto@lemmy.ca
      2·
      15 days ago

      I’ve taken a couple of shots at yacy, but have little luck. It’s possible to self host a searxng in docker that uses almost no resources. I use a server, but a buddy literally has it load on startup in his Windows.