YaCy VS Whoogle Search

YaCy might fit your bill: https://yacy.net/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month 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 / about 2 months ago

Here you go: distributed, peer-to-peer, FLOSS search engine: https://yacy.net. - Source: Hacker News / 3 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 / 3 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 / 7 months ago

I deployed whoogle search at home. For laptops it is rather easy to define it as the default search for alfred and the respective browser, but for iOS devices I have not found a way (except some rather clunky and intrusive extensions) to change the default search engine beyond what Apple tells you. Is there a way to to this via pfSense or pihole? So whenever someone searches in the address bar in safari on iOS... Source: 11 months ago

I host an instance of Whoogle Search that I use and never looked back. It's like someone brought Google back to the golden age. No (direct) tracking, no ads, complete control over the results. Source: 11 months ago

You know what this community needs? Our own community whoogle server. Source: about 1 year ago

Whoogle for the win; https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search. Source: over 1 year ago

I use whoogle with still uses Google under the hood but strips any PII out of the requests, I also run mine on a publicly hosted server. Source: over 1 year ago