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I'm not a fan of ads at all. But I am curious, is there an alternative way to provide a free service while still making money? Unrelated, it would be cool to b
by heywoodlh 4y ago
I'm not a fan of ads at all. But I am curious, is there an alternative way to provide a free service while still making money?
Unrelated, it would be cool to be able to self host an actual search engine (not talking about privacy-focused front ends like Searx -- but I'm grateful for projects like it) without having to store petabytes of data. Is there a self-hostable search engine alternative that doesn't just use another backend search engine service like Bing?
- bishplsok 4y agoActually Useful(tm) result out of the recent influx of AI hype -- "search engine" trained on, by and large, how people recommend links on sites like Reddit. It's a little hit or miss in my experience still, but when it hits it's legitimately brilliant, and mostly avoids the "Google search results are useless and dominated by SEO-farm garbage" issue. https://metaphor.systems/ https://metaphor.systems/
- heywoodlh 4y agoWhoa, this is really cool! Is it self-hostable/open source?