There’s Yacy. It worked ok when I was running it locally, but the moment I connected it to the rest of the network my search results were dominated by porn and spam sites.
the problem as I understand it is that with yacy you request relevant results from peers in addition to your own local DB. but that makes it really easy for spammers to keyword-stuff results and push their sites to the top.
I’m not sure how we can trust random people to give you search results without being overrun by spam.
There’s Yacy. It worked ok when I was running it locally, but the moment I connected it to the rest of the network my search results were dominated by porn and spam sites.
Search engines are incredibly conplex. the problem might not be decentralization, but just proper investment and development.
I agree. I think it’s sad that YaCy never worked as well as the alternatives, but it is a very cool project nonetheless!
Maybe in the future someone will try the concept again and succeed.
Also: Google is getting worse and worse, so it’ll get easier over time ;)
the problem as I understand it is that with yacy you request relevant results from peers in addition to your own local DB. but that makes it really easy for spammers to keyword-stuff results and push their sites to the top.
I’m not sure how we can trust random people to give you search results without being overrun by spam.
Interesting, couldn’t you exclude results from servers that did this?
My google and duckduckgo search results are also dominated by porn sites.
well hey, I won’t judge