Serious question, why do we give so much power to these tech firms such as Google, when really the solution is decentralization. We have some solutions for money with bitcoin, but there still doesn’t seem to be a viable alternative with a search engine that is decentralized?
What do you mean by decentralized? Searx actually works better than Google with it’s meta search capabilities and the fact you can host it anywhere, it is decentralized.
Are you referring to some sort of decentralized indexing of the internet?
YaCy is a decentralized search engine.
Only if it actually worked.
pros:
cons:
alternatives:
none
there are many alternatives for more efficient small personalized search engines with medium startup time and skill level.
a crawler can be more customizable if you script it yourself. (for yacy or whatever else)
To run YaCy less demonic (low resources device)
Controlling cpu usage :
At the /PerformanceQueues_p.html page, you can limit some threads (light processes inside the JVM) maximum numbers (in the Thread Pool Settings table). When you are crawling, you can also control the Speed / PPM (Pages Per Minute) in the /Crawler_p.html page.
https://arborist.wip2p.eth.link/#!/goyacy
I’m new to YaCy and not aware of what may or may not be working but I just saw this mentioned as a “frontend for searching YaCy without having to remember which node to use”.
Anyway, I’m gonna give it a try.
What’s not working? Is it a matter of needing more crawlers as @Danrobi@lemmy.ml mentioned, or something else?
Wow, 2/3 times I tried searching through this site I got a dead (or otherwise inaccessible) node.
Yeah, basically the same for me. Sometimes it works ok. Sometimes I get infinite loading.