The instances that give the best results seem to also get throttled pretty often on the source search engines, to the point of near uselessness.
Thinking of hosting my own, but the maintenance seems pretty involved according to the docs.
What’s your experience been like?
Edit: all right y’all, thanks for the feedback. I’m going to spin up an instance.
I wish we have a free to use, open source, and privacy respecting search engine that do the crawling and indexing and don’t rely on other search engines.
Maybe we can utilize all selfhosted instances to do the crawling and consolidate it.
Oh wouldn’t that be sweet, a federated web crawler
Not saying it’s perfect but doesn’t Yacy do this?
How did I not know about it sooner.
Thank you!!
@deleted @BonkTheAnnoyed
https://openwebsearch.eu/
Getting there :)
Can’t wait to use it. Id support them as much as I can.