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Federated Search Engine? (self.foss)

submitted 1 year ago by ConsciousCode to c/foss

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Considering the potential of the fediverse, is there any version of that for search engines? Something to break up a major point of internet centralization, fragility, and inertia to change (eg Google will never, ever, offer IPFS searches). Not only would decentralization be inherently beneficial, it would mean we're no longer compelled to hand over private information to centralized unvetted corporations like Google, Microsoft, and DuckDuckGo.

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[–] OneRedFox 8 points 1 year ago

SearXNG is probably the closest equivalent, as it's decentralized, you can host your own, and you can grab search results from over 100 engines with it. Search engines don't really federate like the Fediverse does; they just query each other as proxies for you and return the search results.