I’ve gotten very into self-hosting (on device, not on a server) my own search engine, but searxng is unbearably clunky to make run on my Gentoo OpenRC machine. Two projects stuck out, 4get and omnisearch, but which of these do you think is the best and do you know other ones?
Not a traditional search engine, but reduces the need for one on repeated searches. Your own web traffic is the crawling, saved and indexed locally for future lookups.
YaCy isn’t just a peer-to-peer search-engine, it can be run as a non-connected private node as well. The operator decides whether they want to contribute to the larger peer-to-peer network, a private network or as a lone-node as a personal search-engine. However, any search-engine will struggle on lackluster hardware.
No one uses YaCy and no one ought to. I have a grudge against the developer for creating the worst search engine architecture known to everyone.
Kagi is what I wound up going with
Uruky is great.
Kagi’s on top ! It’s a few bucks per month, but search results are amazing, it surface small websites and block slop.
It even allows you to block useless websites like pinterest
I have heard Kagi just layers their own special sauce atop Google’s index?
It is a unique service with a real value prop, I just want to make sure we are accurate here…
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Pretty please?
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300 is low, i agree. but idk, if it’s a free product, then YOU are the product. is my data still being used in ways that profit a few and invade my privacy? probably, but less than google i hope.
I am on the anti-AI side of things, by nature of being human. and yeah, there’s some AI shit in kagi, as with seemingly all others. but it at least it’s opt-in (i think). i’ve never seen it shoved in my face, which i can’t say for example duckduckgo.
can’t tell u what price is best for you, or what UI u prefer. but trash? no. google is trash.
Why even bother commenting this if you’re not willing to elaborate?
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That belief that something is trash exists for literally everything so it’s effectively a worthless stance without context.
I don’t have the answer to your qustion, but I like to occasionally consider that there is no such thing as a stupid action, only an action that I don’t understand.
Why would someone talk like that?
Some possibilities:
- To stem all future criticism of Kagi by making the first and the most at the time visible criticism sound braindead. Thus creating an association that all of criticism is braindead.
- To use the reverse psychology to promote Kagi. You say it sucks, and you don’t think it’s worth your time to even explain it? Well, I am a rebel, so as a fuck you, I will use Kagi.
- To further lock in the attention and the mental resources on Kagi. Love it or hate it, be indifferent to it, but here we are thinking about Kagi. Kagi’s profile has been raised.
These three immediately jump at me, because I see people preaching Kagi in a manner of an influence op.
So these negs could be part of the op.
Again. Not saying I know. I don’t. And I likely won’t use Kagi myself. It’s just fun to speculate a bit.
LLM much?
That was not an LLM. That said, I do use a chatbot like once a week. Maybe some of their speegh patterns are rubbing off?
I appreciate your honesty and you seem like you want to do your best. I’m sorry we aren’t a more supportive group.
Yes, it has been scientifically proven that you are getting dumber by using an LLM regularly to do your thinking for you. Congratulations.
You DO realize that you’re firing on your own team, right?
Let’s not do that, here. This is our community, it’s what you and I make of it.
https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integration-due-to-the-geopolitical-status-quo Just putting it out there.
dud they remove yandex? one of the few good search engines for content that doesn’t follow the DMCA?
It may be good in some scenarios, but paying for it is unacceptable.
I’d say it’s more private to anonymously use google or brave through a hardened web browser with a vpn than logged in to kagi account attached to your payment method.
degoog comes to mind
Never heard of it, do you have a link?
Xprivo
mind linking to it? duckduckgo literally returns 0 results and i’m not sure what you’re referring to
Sure. Here is the.link: https://www.xprivo.com/search
Hope this works.
Yacy has been around awhile. It can run solo or p2p
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I’ve been building a search engine for rhe last year. Expect a Q4 release next year, who knows maybe even earlier.
there is https://marginalia-search.com/
