Is it just me or are many independent search engines down? Duckduckgo, my go to engine, qwant, ecosia, startpage… All down? The only hint I got was on the qwant page…
They have meta engines that search instances of searx
Same with me.
DDG was working earlier today, but for the past hour it just throws an error “There was an error displaying the search results. Please try again.”
Wait it’s all bing? 🌎👨🚀🔫👨🚀
Always has been. Chk chk
Google doesn’t
It’s bing all the way down
Its about time we make a federated search engine and indexer
I was thinking about this and imagined the federated servers handling the index db, search algorithms, and search requests, but instead leverage each users browser/compute to do the actual web crawling/scraping/indexing; the server simply performing CRUD operations on the processed data from clients to index db. This approach would target the core reason why search engines fail (cost of scraping and processing billions of sites), reduce the costs to host a search server, and spread the expense across the user base.
It also may have the added benefit of hindering surveillance capitalism due to a sea of junk queries from every client, especially if it were making crawler requests from the same browser (obviously needs to be isolated from the users own data, extensions, queries, etc). The federated servers would also probably need to operate as lighthouses that orchestrate the domains and IP ranges to crawl, and efficiently distribute the workload to client machines.
Shit man thats exactly the kind of implementation i was thinking about. Had the idea for a couple years now but now that the fediverse is starting to gain traction i think it’s probably about time some code gets written. Unfortunatly due to CORS u cant just start serving people a js script that starts indexing in the background.
The theory with crawling is it has discovery built into it, no? You follow outbound links and discover domains that way. So you need some seeds, but otherwise you discover based on what other people already know about.
To me the problem seems like a few submarines in a cave. They can each see a little bit of what’s around them, and then they can share maps. Like the minimum knowledge of the internet is one’s own explorations. As one browses the web, their sensors are storing everything they see. It also actively searches with other agents, automatically crawls on its own like active sensors on a submarine always mapping out the environment.
Then, in the presence of other friendly subs, you can trade information. So one’s own personal and small map of the internet can get merged and mixed with others to get a more and more complete version.
Obviously this can be automated and batched, but that’s sort of the analogy I see in the real world: multiple parties exploring an unknown/changing space and sharing their data to make a map.
I’ve also thought about this, but I don’t know what would be the costs to do such a thing. (I’m ignorant on the subject)
Isn’t that searx / searxng?
SearXNG is a fork from the well-known searx metasearch engine which was inspired by the Seeks project. It provides basic privacy by mixing your queries with searches on other platforms without storing search data. SearXNG can be added to your browser’s search bar; moreover, it can be set as the default search engine.
SearXNG appreciates your concern regarding logs, so take the code from the SearXNG sources and run it yourself!
Add your instance to this list of public instances to help other people reclaim their privacy and make the internet freer. The more decentralized the internet is, the more freedom we have!
Not at all. This just searches multiple search engines at once and presents you with the results from all of them on a single page.
Dogpile.com is back
Dogpile.com is still there, actually.
Aw, hell yes
Smth like yaCy?
Looks interesting why have i never heard of this. Are there any websites that rank search engines to get some concrete metrics?
idk about any raking sites, but from what I understand, YaCy gets better the more ppl participate in it
other ppl already mentioned Searxng which is also great
Thats what im currently using but its a meta search engine and still relies on everyone else’s proprietary crap.
Yandex is still up
Because it is the best search engine, and Russian. W Russia.
lol how could they all go down at the same time
I have no idea, but I can’t LOL…
The Bing frontends are down.
Fascinating, Duckduckgo isn’t working for me aswell.
Same. Duck duck go is down for me.
Seems to be related to bing using AI now…
Yet, DuckDuckGo and Startpage seem down, too. Even though DDG supposedly uses its own results, and SP supposedly is a FE for Google
Has ddg ever really claimed to use its own index? I’ve always thought of it being a bing frontend
edit: Apparently start page pulls from Google and Bing (going off of this)
I recall that DuckDuckGo bought data from Yahoo and then used that on its own, but if that was ever true it no longer is:
Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing.
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources
“We’re totally not just rewrapping Bing results!!!”
Well it ses that bing is down too, and most independent search engines are a warper arround bing so…
*wrapper
*rapper
You gotta believe!
“independent”