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Now that Google is slowly but surely going to shits, i’m searching for a new search engine, and i was thinking, of going the extra mile and hosting my own, decentralized one, but which one should i choose (YACY, Presearch or Seeks), or are all of them not there yet?

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[–] tonytins@pawb.social 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I've tried Yacy plenty of times in the past. It seems to get the job done the best, in my opinion, and gives you a lot of control.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

But is it decentralized? Do the results from multiple spiders get added to give everyone the same quality searches or do I need to scan the whole internet myself?

[edit] I was looking at this earlier and couldn't find the info. Started searching again just now and found it immediately... of course... (The answer is YES)

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 1 points 20 hours ago

Yeah. There's a whole section dedicated to showing varies nodes in the network.