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wibyweb

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    Comment #32065839

    Perhaps you can develop such a browser extension. Sounds like a very good idea actually.

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    Comment #32041237

    Not sure how yacy works exactly except that its some sort of grand decentralized search engine project that is somehow all connected together.

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    Comment #32041221

    Do let me know if you succeed

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    Comment #32041208

    I wish I knew. They have nothing to gain. Its effectively a DDoS attack.

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    Comment #32031238

    Thank you, I do hope you get around to building a wiby engine!

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    Comment #32031214

    You can certainly change the crawler's database connection from "localhost" to an IP address on a different machine, but I am unsure how that works with that type of proxy (I had t…

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    Comment #32031134

    Thank you! Makes me happy to see people enjoying it.

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    Comment #32030920

    A group of people would have to band together to share the same table (windex) with each other. Personally I am interested in seeing people try to cultivate their own niche indexes…

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    Comment #32030828

    Thank you, my index is puny compared to yours and that is because I only index the page submitted by guests and don't go any further. The index is in the 10's of thousands. The hyp…

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    Comment #32030778

    With this code you will start out with a blank index and will have to start making submissions to your search engine to build the index, but you can search the results as soon as t…

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    Comment #32030746

    >how big did the fulltext table became for x entries on wiby.me I want Wiby to be comprised mainly of human submitted pages, so for 99% of the index, only the pages submitted by us…

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    Comment #31404045

    Interesting, thanks for that extra info.

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    Comment #31396871

    In late April up to now, Wiby (a small mostly unheard of search engine) began having the exact same issue. Tens of thousands of the exact same type of "powered by..." requests comi…