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@mangeurdenuage Is #Qwant really that pervasive? #Google got to be so big because its results were better than existing search providers. Yahoo used to be close (even with a Bing backend) and #DuckDuckGo was even closer (with Bing, #Yandex, and others), but lately, using a non-G search results in just going back to G. . The deep secret among search providers is that the "B" i…
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On search: I really want to host another #YaCy node, but YaCy's results are still not great. Even when my node was crawling & indexing sites in a particular field (at the time, FOSS SQL and NOSQL databases) weekly, searches for things in that field were infested with non-related results such that finding the desired answer was unreliable.
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YaCy integrates #Solr ... so its results should be improvable.
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I could try using #Gigablast for a while.
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I used to use #Startpage / #Ixquick, but they were taken over by a sketchy company with a history of questionable actions.
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@mangeurdenuage I think the thing #YaCy needs most is algorithm improvements. It already crawls and indexes a significant subset of the things in the major search engines' indexes, but it fails to select correct enough results out of that index.