A look at search engines with their own indexes
A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.
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Looks like for the hardware requirements for self hosting some of the open source options, I'll be saving up quite a bit for SSDs.
FWIW, I gave YaCy a try a while back, and I agree with the article on that one. Shit tier results that make ancient AltaVista look good. Might be fine for intranet search. I like the idea of its distributed hosting, but pass on this one.
Other poster mentioned SearXNG, and while I haven't delved into that too much, it's probably worth a check. Pass on YaCy.
SearXNG is a meta search entirely reliant on other services.
I really like Yacy's results, personally. It seems good for the kinds of sites I care about. My biggest problem with it is that the newest version is so memory-hungry.
Consider self-hosting SearXNG, which can aggregate results and filter.
Already am, but it still pulls results from the companies I want to separate myself from. I'd rather see what it takes/how well it performs to have my own indexer.
Good luck with that one. It takes a lot of resources from my limited and aged experience, and I'm sure it's more now. Might be worth focusing the indexer on a topic area to start, just to get a feel for sizing (if your chosen solution supports that).
Yeah, long term goal is a self reliant total internet experience. I figure at best, I'll still have to rely on a handful of more trustworthy companies to do some things like search.
