Is YaCy something worth looking into? Apparently it's a Peer2Peer search engine. Their site offers a demo hidden away, but I'm not sure what to make of it. I got the impression that it can be used as a personal search engine for one's own bookmarks as well (once indexed), but self-hosting with Docker and stuff like that seems like too much of a hassle.Their site:https://yacy.net/The demo:https://yacy.searchlab.eu/Status.html
>>107900040The demo is timing out for me, but it was working earlier... Did I accidentally ruin it?Actually nvm it's just incredibly slow now for some reason.
>>107900040With all the SEO blog spam something like yacy seems like the only way to make search engines useful again.
>>107900192Judging by the demo, at least insofar as I got it to work, SEO spam is still an issue. In fact, the front page was just a few links with thousands of tags cluttering the screen.
>>107900040tried it many years ago but don't remember why i didn't use it againbump for interests
>>107901597If the demo is anything to go by, it's barely functional both in terms of performance and of results. But maybe it's more useful for internal files, I don't know.
I hosted my own yacy instance years ago and it was shit in finding anything relevant related to your query but it was good for finding all kinds of random shit normie search engines won't show you.
>>107901698Interesting. How hard is it to self-host? I've only hosted FreshRSS in the past, blindly following step-by-step instructions, and have zero experience beyond that.
>>107901714Hard? It's not hard but it requires a bunch of RAM and CPU as far as I can remember. It's not exactly lightweight and it's written in java. I can't say it's useful, it's a fun gimmick though for a short while.
