squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 2 months agoWhy there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing!ploum.netexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down111 cross-posted to: europe@feddit.org
arrow-up189arrow-down1external-linkWhy there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing!ploum.netsquirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square13fedilink cross-posted to: europe@feddit.org
minus-squaretoothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·2 months agoSee also the Openwebsearch initiative, who are trying to make a provider agnostic index made in the EU: https://openwebsearch.eu/
minus-squaremorgenpost@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThe bot behind this initiative has been appearing in server logs for years, but there are still no meaningful results. After all, how useful is an index (“9.15 Billion URLs crawled”) if there is no search engine? I finally just blocked the bot.
minus-squaretoothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoYeah, I hope someone makes an engine based on this, that seems like a really important step that is currently missing completely.
minus-squareBigShammy80@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoIs there a way to use this? I mean for end users?
minus-squaretoothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoSadly no, a search engine has to adopt the index first. So im still waiting for an open source initiative that uses this.
See also the Openwebsearch initiative, who are trying to make a provider agnostic index made in the EU: https://openwebsearch.eu/
The bot behind this initiative has been appearing in server logs for years, but there are still no meaningful results. After all, how useful is an index (“9.15 Billion URLs crawled”) if there is no search engine? I finally just blocked the bot.
Yeah, I hope someone makes an engine based on this, that seems like a really important step that is currently missing completely.
Is there a way to use this? I mean for end users?
Sadly no, a search engine has to adopt the index first. So im still waiting for an open source initiative that uses this.