Hey man, nice site you have here. Good times lately with Voat shitting the bed so much and having registration closed huh? And as you saw, I respect you guys having the SearX instance up too.
So I'd be curious why you believe they are the only 3 options.
I went through a bunch of lists of alternative search engines, and all of them had "some data from Bing/Google/Yahoo" aside from these 3. There may be more out there, certainly if non-english sites are factored in.
Well like I said I'll look into them, but my long term plan is to build my own.
Right on. I did a rough calculation that a 1 billion page search index would be about 60TB and cost $2700/mo to host on Amazon, not that Amz is a good idea. I'm gonna look into getting a YaCy node going for the reddit alternative I help with. I wish decentralized Reddit was here already.
Man I used to be a fan of the decentralized idea until I saw the reality of it in action. The reality is pedophilia and all that other shit. So now I just don't know its why I haven't gone that route here.
Which reddit alt are you helping with? Is it a free speech platform?
Edit Also I have a bit of a different idea on how to manage doing a search engine. That should allow me to do it a little less resource intensive.
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