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YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by modinfo » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 5:47 PM UTC

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Post by rasulkireev » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 6:22 PM UTC

Recently installed YaCy on my Synology via docker image the provide. Already saved about 10Gb of content interesting to me. Now, I have a personal Search Engine. Awesome.

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by dang » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 6:25 PM UTC

YaCy: a free distributed search engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12433010 - Sept 2016 (24 comments)

YaCy – Peer to Peer Search Engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11956268 - June 2016 (3 comments)

YaCy: Decentralized Web Search - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8746883 - Dec 2014 (29 comments)

YaCy takes on Google with open source search engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3288586 - Nov 2011 (17 comments)

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by BaseballPhysics » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 6:35 PM UTC

rasulkireev wrote: post #2

Recently installed YaCy on my Synology via docker image the provide. Already saved about 10Gb of content interesting to me. Now, I have a personal Search Engine. Awesome.

So what's your workflow for using it? You mentioned it's saved "content interesting to me". Are you doing directed crawls or...?

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Post by pacifika » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 7:06 PM UTC

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

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Post by sciguy77 » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 7:18 PM UTC

Has anyone tried LinkAce? I'd love to hear someone's thoughts on YaCy vs LinkAce.

This is great timing. After looking at YaCy for my Synology NAS a few week ago, I looked at some alternatives. I like the look of LinkAce, though it seems to be less popular and I haven't found much on how a setup on a Synology NAS works.

I'd love some advice, I have a massive number of bookmarks across dozens of folders. Something like this is exactly what I'm looking for.

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by rasulkireev » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 7:20 PM UTC

sciguy77 wrote: post #6

Has anyone tried LinkAce? I'd love to hear someone's thoughts on YaCy vs LinkAce. This is great timing. After looking at YaCy for my Synology NAS a few week ago, I looked at some alternatives. I like the look of LinkAce, though it seems to be less popular and I haven't found much on how a setup on a Synology NAS works. I'd love some advice, I have a massive number of bookmarks across dozens of folders. Something like…

I did that a couple of months ago. Was planning to write something up in the next month or so.

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Post by rasulkireev » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 7:21 PM UTC

BaseballPhysics wrote: post #4

rasulkireev wrote: post #2

Recently installed YaCy on my Synology via docker image the provide. Already saved about 10Gb of content interesting to me. Now, I have a personal Search Engine. Awesome.

So what's your workflow for using it? You mentioned it's saved "content interesting to me". Are you doing directed crawls or...?

Yeah, if it is just one articles or a blog post I crawl at depth 0, and if it is someone's personal website who I enjoy reading always, no matter what they write, I do an infinite crawl on that specific domain.

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Post by encryptluks2 » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 7:26 PM UTC

sciguy77 wrote: post #6

Has anyone tried LinkAce? I'd love to hear someone's thoughts on YaCy vs LinkAce. This is great timing. After looking at YaCy for my Synology NAS a few week ago, I looked at some alternatives. I like the look of LinkAce, though it seems to be less popular and I haven't found much on how a setup on a Synology NAS works. I'd love some advice, I have a massive number of bookmarks across dozens of folders. Something like…

They serve very different purposes. While a search engine in turn can archives sites it isn't the only purpose. LinkAce is designed more for bookmarking and archiving sites akin to a bookmark manager, not as a search engine.

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Post by Tijdreiziger » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 7:28 PM UTC

rasulkireev wrote: post #2

Recently installed YaCy on my Synology via docker image the provide. Already saved about 10Gb of content interesting to me. Now, I have a personal Search Engine. Awesome.

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.