Comment on Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 8 months agoIt still requires the use of Google/Bing/etc API calls. There’s literally no way to truly self host a web indexing search engine without sacrificing your privacy or paying millions of dollars.
hedgehog@ttrpg.network 8 months ago
You can use YaCy, which can be run as an independent self-hosted index (in “Local” mode), where it will index sites visited as part of web crawls that you initiate, or you can run it as part of a decentralized peer-to-peer network of indexes.
YaCy has its own search UI but you can also set up SearXNG to use it.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 8 months ago
I have mentioned this software a while back here in lemmy and someone with actual expertise mentioned running YaCy on noncommercial hardware becomes untenable after a certain duration due to poor quality network, incompatible indexing algorithms, massive database, and search query response.
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 8 months ago
I am not that person, but the only way I see YaCy being useful is as a web crawler for specific sites that you personally find high value in.