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Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by ephbit »

ephbit wrote: post #70
ThinkingGuy wrote: post #17

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I keep everything on my home server: photos, music, home videos, movies, downloaded webpages, ebooks, instruction manuals, etc., all shared out over HTTP. Yacy basically gives me a centralized, private search engine for my house. Example searches: "Frigidaire manual" "living room collection:Photos" "London Philharmonic Orchestra collection:Music" Of course, having things in an organized hierarchical file system, with…

Have you considered using recoll for your use case? I guess it should fit your "centralized private search engine for my house" application quite well.

I really liked that one time, when recoll brought up more than 10 year old photos I had mostly forgotten about. I had searched the name of a person and a few photos still had exif tags in them from when I had used Picasa back then to tag them with the person's name.

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by pt_PT_guy »

mimimi31 wrote: post #22
alxjsn wrote: post #20

If you haven't heard of Brave Goggles ( https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart ) I highly recommend checking it out. Just being able to create the search index is a massive task, so being able to apply rules server-side to their "expanded recall set" will give you what most people building search engines want, which is to control the algorithm. We weren't able to do that until now since applying rules client-sid…

Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has very similar tools with their "Lenses" and customizable prioritization of specific domains.

Kagi is awesome, but unfortunately too expensive

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by ydant »

pacifika wrote: post #5

Use this as a personal knowledge base. Indexed my blog. Indexed a bookmarks export. Indexed a knowledge base. Works well. It also convinced me of power user ui

That's what I'm doing - exporting bookmarks, links from my notes (markdown, etc), HN/Reddit upvoted links, starred github projects, etc - and then having YaCy index them.

In theory, this means I can use this as a search engine of things I found interesting / potentially useful.

In practice, I never search it, but that's more a limitation on my workflows than anything else.

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by 0bit »

AndyMcConachie wrote: post #42

I have about 100,000 PDFs that I want indexed and searchable. They're on a website and I want people to be able to visit the website and search through the PDFs. Should I use Yacy or Apache Solr? All opinions and rants welcome.

I would recommend using Apache Tika to extract the text from the PDFs and using Solr (or Elasticsearch) to index and search them.

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by ThinkingGuy »

johntash wrote: post #67
ThinkingGuy wrote: post #17

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I keep everything on my home server: photos, music, home videos, movies, downloaded webpages, ebooks, instruction manuals, etc., all shared out over HTTP. Yacy basically gives me a centralized, private search engine for my house. Example searches: "Frigidaire manual" "living room collection:Photos" "London Philharmonic Orchestra collection:Music" Of course, having things in an organized hierarchical file system, with…

Do you expose things like photos/videos/pdfs through a public web server? I thought about using Yacy for something similar, but wasn't sure about wanting to just leave everything available unauthenticated on the local network.

I've configured my web server so that it's accessible over the Internet, but only if you have a client certificate issued from my certificate authority.

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by remram »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #60
upupandup wrote: post #28

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I see Brave. I close tab. I don't trust them or anybody that pushes their offerings which are just crypto ponzi schemes.

I understand that HN hates crypto but calling everything a ponzi scheme is just absurd. They just made a currency to pay users with.

The home made currency is the ponzi scheme.

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by wccrawford »

Tijdreiziger wrote: post #47
wccrawford wrote: post #26

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Also not OP. I've got a Synology 918+ that I've used for years, and as a file store, I'm quite pleased. I've tried running apps on it, and the ones that are available are decent, but I pretty quickly got to where I needed to SSH in to make certain things happen, and that felt weird for an appliance like this. I added Docker and ran a bunch of stuff on that, and that was kind of a pain. They don't make it easy to upda…

Thanks! So are you running the first-party Synology Drive, Moments, etc. for file/photo syncing, or do you run something like Nextcloud on your Linux box? Or do you not use software like that?

I'm not using that kind of stuff. Mine is mostly about video with a little sorta-backup for files that don't matter a ton, but I'd still rather not lose.

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

wccrawford wrote: post #78
Tijdreiziger wrote: post #47

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Thanks! So are you running the first-party Synology Drive, Moments, etc. for file/photo syncing, or do you run something like Nextcloud on your Linux box? Or do you not use software like that?

I'm not using that kind of stuff. Mine is mostly about video with a little sorta-backup for files that don't matter a ton, but I'd still rather not lose.

I see. Thanks again!

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

drittich wrote: post #57
Tijdreiziger wrote: post #10

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Off-topic, but how do you like Synology? I'm familiar with one of their units for work, but I'm looking into a new NAS for my home, and I'm trying to decide between Synology or building my own and putting Nextcloud on it.

I like Synology a lot but mainly use it for storage/backup. It's a very expensive way to host containers IMO. I would look to a Mac Mini for something like that.

Thanks. My main use-cases are file/photo syncing, media server, etc. I saw that Synology has first-party apps for those things, so that would be the main draw for me.
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