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   Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 02:32:37 JST Chris Trottier

   After social media gets decentralized, I hope web search gets decentralized.

   Google shouldn’t be dominating web search.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 02:37:17 JST Chris Trottier

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     • Wolfensteijn

     @wolfensteijn This is a good start. https://searx.github.io/searx/

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     Wolfensteijn (wolfensteijn@urface.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 02:37:18 JST Wolfensteijn

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     @atomicpoet How could one go about decentralizing web search?

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 02:37:42 JST Chris Trottier

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     • Sbectol

     @Sbectol It can be done. Here’s a start. https://searx.github.io/searx/

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     Sbectol (sbectol@calckey.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 02:37:50 JST Sbectol

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     @atomicpoet@mastodon.social I can't even imagine how decentralised search would work

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     alex (alex@akko.alexmshepherd.com)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 02:39:24 JST alex

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     @atomicpoet
     
     https://github.com/owdex/owdex
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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 02:39:27 JST Chris Trottier

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     • alex

     @alex I didn’t know about this one.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 02:41:54 JST Chris Trottier

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     • Sbectol

     @Sbectol You can host this on your own server. That’s a start. Indexing can be built later.

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     Sbectol (sbectol@calckey.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 02:41:55 JST Sbectol

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     @atomicpoet@mastodon.social ok but that still needs the 70+ search engines for the individual instances to use.. or maybe I'm misunderstanding

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     ch0ccyra1n (ch0ccyra1n@emeraldsocial.org)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 02:45:58 JST ch0ccyra1n

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     @atomicpoet
     My fav search engine is wiby.me . You can even deploy your own if you want to set up one with a custom index: https://wiby.me/about/guide.html

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 02:46:10 JST Chris Trottier

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     • ch0ccyra1n

     @ch0ccyra1n Very cool!

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 02:47:08 JST Chris Trottier

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     • alex

     @alex Bookmarked.

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     alex (alex@akko.alexmshepherd.com)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 02:47:17 JST alex

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     @atomicpoet it’s mine :)
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     Steve's Place (stevesplace@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 03:46:07 JST Steve's Place

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     @atomicpoet I used to like one that aggregated searches of multiple engines. I use duckduckgo mostly these days.

     Searches are expensive for sites b/c database searches are resource hogs. YouTube charges partner apps/sites a lot for searching beyond a trivial number. Hard 2 run a site where users create playlists if you can't search.

     I'd like to see more players and any better methods of retrieval the clever among us can come up with.

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     AdamJensenSI (adamjensensi@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 06:29:15 JST AdamJensenSI

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     @atomicpoet yeah! More searches, more, more! We dont get any good results anyway, all will be banned or just nonsense, or spammed, but there wasnt google monopoly!!!
     Dude, you was using Brave, Yandex, Duckduckgo and etc?
     Monopoly or not - thats all useless crap, seriously.
     Problem not in a google monopoly, but generally in a censorship. And, of course, big companies dont trying hard to improve searches. They only sell positions and advertising.