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Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by matheusmoreira »

andirk wrote: post #49
metalliqaz wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought Brave was just a web browser with built-in adblock, but after your comment I decided to look it up on wikipedia. Holey moley, what a nightmare.

It's by far the best browser out there. Based on Chromium. Doesn't allow websites to abuse its technical capabilities (i.e. share your data via 3rd party ad servers). You can tip content creators. You can partake in the community and all the things Brave is building, or just use the browser in its default state. If you want a crypto + search laughing stock, check out https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/presearch/ .

Firefox + uBlock Origin is still superior to Brave's ad blocker though. Brave can't use uBlock Origin on mobile.

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by mdaniel »

bityard wrote: post #23

It's interesting that this uses a distributed P2P index. That's a very good idea and one of the things that has held me back from even thinking about trying to build my own tech-focused search engine. One thing I was hoping to see in the FAQ was how they prevent rogue nodes from inserting spam or other kinds of mischief into the public index.

I hesitate to mention it, because I had a bad experience with them and it involves "crypto," which is always a hot-button, but https://presearch.com is also playing in the distributed search engine space, and their approach actually seems reasonably well thought out https://www.presearch.io/vision.pdf>. Unfortunately that paper does not seem to address your rogue nodes observation, which makes me doubt their success beyond their availability issues when I tried it. All of that is above and beyond the "download this closed source binary, trust us!" which noped me right out from considering running a node

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by smegger001 »

bityard wrote: post #23

It's interesting that this uses a distributed P2P index. That's a very good idea and one of the things that has held me back from even thinking about trying to build my own tech-focused search engine. One thing I was hoping to see in the FAQ was how they prevent rogue nodes from inserting spam or other kinds of mischief into the public index.

I doubt that it is a problem yet but if I were i charge of building a solution to said problem I would try to build a distributed trust system where bad nodes could be flagged and that flag spread to the rest of the network. Those that trust your node would lower the trust ranking of the flagged nodes the more flags against them the lower the ranking the rouge node would get.

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by speedgoose »

UberFly wrote: post #41
upupandup wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It's just a different revenue model than the usual ad garbage. You don't have to use it.

By using it, you make it relevant by increasing its market share, and therefore you support and promote the scam.

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

palata wrote: post #55
andirk wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's by far the best browser out there. Based on Chromium. Doesn't allow websites to abuse its technical capabilities (i.e. share your data via 3rd party ad servers). You can tip content creators. You can partake in the community and all the things Brave is building, or just use the browser in its default state. If you want a crypto + search laughing stock, check out https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/presearch/ .

Depends on your definition of "best browser" I guess... My best browser is Firefox, precisely because it is not based on Chromium.

yeah, multiple times i have asked people "why isnt brave a fork of firefox" and they say "its pita" and you need quick and easy way to customize, blah blah blah.

then you have half a dozen firefox forks running absolutely fine, each one has its good and bad but the thing is, if these 1-2 man outfits can fork and release their own firefox forks with additional features/customizations, why cant brave? or do they don't want to do the actual leg work and only want to take praise for "doing best", eh

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by johntash »

ThinkingGuy wrote: post #17
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

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.

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by johntash »

tecoholic wrote: post #44
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

Self plug - If you want to skip bookmarking and go straight to indexing, I have a firefox extension for it - https://github.com/tecoholic/yacy-it

> Adds the current webpage to the local YACY index. This assumes you are running YaCy in localhost:8090.

Is there a way to use this plugin with an instance of Yacy hosted somewhere other than localhost? I tried making a bookmarklet to do something similar, but never ended up getting it working.

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by BurningPenguin »

bityard wrote: post #23

It's interesting that this uses a distributed P2P index. That's a very good idea and one of the things that has held me back from even thinking about trying to build my own tech-focused search engine. One thing I was hoping to see in the FAQ was how they prevent rogue nodes from inserting spam or other kinds of mischief into the public index.

Depending on your requirements, you may be able to do it with a framework of your choice, a simple crawler and Elasticsearch.

I'm basically doing just that for my little side project with Symfony + DomCrawler + Elastic. But i'm only crawling the home page and the results are manually curated.

Re: YaCy – your own search engine

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Post by ephbit »

ThinkingGuy wrote: post #17
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

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.

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