squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 4 days agoWhy there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing!ploum.netexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up198arrow-down111 cross-posted to: europe@feddit.org
arrow-up187arrow-down1external-linkWhy there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing!ploum.netsquirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square13fedilink cross-posted to: europe@feddit.org
minus-squaremorgenpost@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoThe bot behind this initiative has been appearing in server logs for years, but there are still no meaningful results. After all, how useful is an index (“9.15 Billion URLs crawled”) if there is no search engine? I finally just blocked the bot.
minus-squaretoothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoYeah, I hope someone makes an engine based on this, that seems like a really important step that is currently missing completely.
The bot behind this initiative has been appearing in server logs for years, but there are still no meaningful results. After all, how useful is an index (“9.15 Billion URLs crawled”) if there is no search engine? I finally just blocked the bot.
Yeah, I hope someone makes an engine based on this, that seems like a really important step that is currently missing completely.