If you ever want to go independent, since some search engines (namely Google and DuckDuckGo) censor search results, there is always YaCy.
If you do want to give it a try make sure to run it on decent machine (good performing multi-core CPU, at least 8 GB of free RAM and at least 1 TB of storage space).
I actually have been running my own YaCy instance on my homelab Server for a few months now. Currently it has indexed about 13 million web pages. Right when this shit with Ukraine started and I read that DuckDuckGo is now censoring russian search results I had enough. And first thing I did was search for things like “China concentration camps” or “North Korea escape” and blacklisted all the US media that popped up. Like you said:
Yes, YaCy is great, but I currently don’t have a free machine with enough resources. I run most of my services from Single Board Computers because they’re very power efficient and cheap. Most services don’t use anywhere near their capacity, so I have plenty of room to expand. The unfortunate downside is that I can only run resource-intensive programs on my powerful servers that are all currently in use. I am getting some more powerful servers though, and might run YaCy when I do.
If you ever want to go independent, since some search engines (namely Google and DuckDuckGo) censor search results, there is always YaCy.
If you do want to give it a try make sure to run it on decent machine (good performing multi-core CPU, at least 8 GB of free RAM and at least 1 TB of storage space).
I actually have been running my own YaCy instance on my homelab Server for a few months now. Currently it has indexed about 13 million web pages. Right when this shit with Ukraine started and I read that DuckDuckGo is now censoring russian search results I had enough. And first thing I did was search for things like “China concentration camps” or “North Korea escape” and blacklisted all the US media that popped up. Like you said:
Yes, YaCy is great, but I currently don’t have a free machine with enough resources. I run most of my services from Single Board Computers because they’re very power efficient and cheap. Most services don’t use anywhere near their capacity, so I have plenty of room to expand. The unfortunate downside is that I can only run resource-intensive programs on my powerful servers that are all currently in use. I am getting some more powerful servers though, and might run YaCy when I do.