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Ok, so it's kind of difficult to compete with Google. I get that. How about building decentralized search engines? Basically ActivityPub, but for search engines
by MrGilbert 6y ago
Ok, so it's kind of difficult to compete with Google. I get that. How about building decentralized search engines? Basically ActivityPub, but for search engines.
Any known efforts in this direction?
- thekyle 6y agoThere is YaCy which has pretty terrible results but is P2P. There used to be a P2P search engine called FAROO that was better but seems to have been shutdown. I wrote a blog post comparing search results quality earlier this year. YaCy came in last, even behind Cliqz. https://www.kylepiira.com/2020/02/07/which-search-engine-has-the-best-results/ https://www.kylepiira.com/2020/02/07/which-search-engine-has...
- MrGilbert 6y agoI remember YaCy, yes... I tried it once, and wasn't convinced. I mean, obviously, there is more to building a "search engine" than just a big fat searchable index. I think where Google shines is to understand what you mean, not what you wrote. This is a pretty complex task, I guess.