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Ask HN: If you hate Google 2022, why not making your Google 2012?
Most of the source code of Google 2022 seem to be on Github separated (PageRank, MapReduce, Freebase, Graphd, etc.). Why isn't there no unified open source 2012 Google-like search engine?
- fsflover 4y agohttps://yacy.net https://yacy.net
- waterfallr 4y agoI don’t hate google but Google is not just search, it’s an ecosystem. OS, browser, email, search etc. Wrt to Search, Scale: Huge cost of infrastructure, data is privatize. You could run a hobby scale pagerank but for searching web it would be a needle in a haystack. They have competition like yandex, nacy, baidu but are not for English web and not open source
- jfoster 4y agoIn 2022, Android & Chrome are the most valuable pieces of Google. For instance, if Microsoft controlled them, they could just point the search functionality toward Bing, and most users mightn't even notice.
- ffhhj 4y agoWhy following the same steps in the wrong direction? When future search engines begin receiving feedback from users and ranking accordingly Google will become irrelevant.
- tkiolp4 4y agoTo compete with Google you can’t just use their legacy tech (pagerank, mapreduce, etc.), you have to come with a better tech.
- speedgoose 4y agoI don’t have the resource to run a 2012 search engine. Even with the CommonCrawl dataset, it’s extremely expensive and also not environmental friendly.
- 8note 4y agoRunning indexes and crawlers is expensive and google has monopoly power on monetizing them
- scottmcdot 4y agoCan we give up our CPU during off peak hours to contribute to crawling? I would do this in return for a Google 2012.
- is_true 4y agoI think that the next search engine is gonna be a service that has an advantage using a technique to identify quality content and ditching the rest, most of the internet is just noise.