squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 9 个月前Why there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing!ploum.netexternal-linkmessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down111 cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
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minus-squaretoothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·9 个月前See also the Openwebsearch initiative, who are trying to make a provider agnostic index made in the EU: https://openwebsearch.eu/
minus-squareBigShammy80@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 个月前Is there a way to use this? I mean for end users?
minus-squaretoothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 个月前Sadly no, a search engine has to adopt the index first. So im still waiting for an open source initiative that uses this.
minus-squaremorgenpost@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 个月前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.
minus-squaretoothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 个月前Yeah, I hope someone makes an engine based on this, that seems like a really important step that is currently missing completely.
See also the Openwebsearch initiative, who are trying to make a provider agnostic index made in the EU: https://openwebsearch.eu/
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.
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.