YaCy might fit your bill: https://yacy.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

It turns out you can make it all the way to become president of Harvard [1] while ignoring this rule so it is questionable whether it is as set in stone as you make it out to be, at least in certain disciplines. In a way these models are a perfect mirror of the current academic climate. They plagiarise without remorse, they follow the latest identity-politics diktat to a point and make up 'facts' when needed to... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Here you go: distributed, peer-to-peer, FLOSS search engine: https://yacy.net. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

> Now I just need some kind of open source search engine to run on it ... Here you go: https://yacy.net. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

I remember https://yacy.net/ but the big problem of this project was java and had not implementations in others languages. I mean it as imagine torrent was only in perl. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Missing: https://yippy.com https://unbubble.eu https://symbolhound.com https://www.exalead.com https://www.searchencrypt.com https://suggest.hulbee.com IME, analysing alternative "search engines" will reveal most are a waste of time. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago