▲ 89 ▼ Why there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing! (ploum.net) submitted 7 months ago by squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi to c/europe@feddit.org 13 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 7 months ago (2 children) See also the Openwebsearch initiative, who are trying to make a provider agnostic index made in the EU: https://openwebsearch.eu/ permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] BigShammy80@feddit.org 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) Is there a way to use this? I mean for end users? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 7 months ago Sadly no, a search engine has to adopt the index first. So im still waiting for an open source initiative that uses this. permalink fedilink source parent [–] morgenpost@feddit.org 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) The bot behind this initiative has been appearing in server logs for years, but there are still no meaningful results. After all, how useful is an index ("9.15 Billion URLs crawled") if there is no search engine? I finally just blocked the bot. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 7 months ago Yeah, I hope someone makes an engine based on this, that seems like a really important step that is currently missing completely. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BigShammy80@feddit.org 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) Is there a way to use this? I mean for end users? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 7 months ago Sadly no, a search engine has to adopt the index first. So im still waiting for an open source initiative that uses this. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 7 months ago Sadly no, a search engine has to adopt the index first. So im still waiting for an open source initiative that uses this. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] morgenpost@feddit.org 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) The bot behind this initiative has been appearing in server logs for years, but there are still no meaningful results. After all, how useful is an index ("9.15 Billion URLs crawled") if there is no search engine? I finally just blocked the bot. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 7 months ago Yeah, I hope someone makes an engine based on this, that seems like a really important step that is currently missing completely. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 7 months ago Yeah, I hope someone makes an engine based on this, that seems like a really important step that is currently missing completely. permalink fedilink source parent