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Search Engines

About YaCY

  • It uses RWI and Solr indices.
  • It takes about 20 GB to index 10 million web pages
  • Fast SSD and RAM is essential.

Potential Issues

  • Search Engine poisoning: A botnet could poison search results.

Search Engine Libraries

  • Apache Lucene (A search engine library, in Java)

Text Search Engines based on them

  • Apache Solr (A search engine built with Apache Lucene, in Java)
  • Elasticsearch (A search engine built with Apache Lucene)

Open Source Web Search Engines

Centralized

  • Stract
  • Metager
  • SearX (Aggregator)
  • SearXNG (Aggregator)
  • Marginalia
  • Searchmysite
  • Wiby (Hobbyist submitted pages)
  • Spyglass

Decentralized

  • YaCY (based on Apache Solr, but with )
  • Infinity Decentralized

Proprietary Web Search Engines

Centralized

  • Swisscows (nice UI)
  • Ecosia (Bing based)
  • Disconnect
  • Mojeek

Decentralized

  • Presearch (Based off of Ethereum blockchain / PRE tokens, may become open source)

Features

  • Filters
    • Stract Search's Optics
    • Brave Search's Googles
    • Spyglass Search's Lenses
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