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Why is there still no decentralised search engine that actually works well? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Serious question, why do we give so much power to these tech firms such as Google, when really the solution is decentralization. We have some solutions for money with bitcoin, but there still doesn't seem to be a viable alternative with a search engine that is decentralized?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (3 children)

Of course theres decentralized search engine. If everyone was using YaCy and would run a crawl of everything that is missing in YaCy, nobody would need Google search engine, period!

New Edit:

To run YaCy less demonic (low resources device)

sh startYACY.sh -d

Controlling cpu usage :

At the /PerformanceQueues_p.html page, you can limit some threads (light processes inside the JVM) maximum numbers (in the Thread Pool Settings table). When you are crawling, you can also control the Speed / PPM (Pages Per Minute) in the /Crawler_p.html page.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 years ago

I didn't know about YaCy, and have now a running instance of it. Many thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago

I have tried running YaCy as a senior node recently. I couldn't get the crawler to work for some reason. I'll have to look into it again some time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (1 children)

biggest problem with yacy is that is slow java, they should had done this on C or GO/RUST now a days

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Java is memory hungry but certainly not slow, especially compared to Go

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

it is slow if you "have to" install the java JDK etc on a "clean" system just to run a java app. and we can argue about java vs go another time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

That's plain silly.