On 04/28/2017 07:18 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > Hi All > > Going back to Eben Moglen's "Freedom in the cloud" talk, he spoke about > the importance of having search engines that dont track you. > > I recently came across this awesome decentralized search engine that > respects privacy, searx > > http://stats.searx.oe5tpo.com/ > > It is possible to run your own node, and let others use it. You can > configure search engines it works with and it has a great UI. Actually > I prefer the results it gives to mainstream commercial web search > engines too. > > I have tried running a version and it seems reasonably leightweight. > Only downside, as far as I can see, is there is no debian package, right > now. > > I was wondering what people thought about the idea of having your own > search engine together in your freedombox?
We should certainly have a search engine in FreedomBox. searx seems to be a self hosted metasearch engine. Ideally, we should have a fully decentralized search engine with crawler and indexing[1]. However, searx could prove nice for some use cases. Links: 1) http://yacy.net/en/index.html -- Sunil
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