There is SearXNG, it's open source and decentralized but AFAIK the different instances don't really share information between them. I'm personally interested in trying it, but I'm apprehensive about the fact that it's really hard to know whether a particular instance is trustworthy, and while it's possible I don't think it makes much sense to host it myself.
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search.trom.tf
Seems to be using searXNG. Routes the search query to different instances
This is actually super cool.
Great product, but why did they pick such a terrible domain? This is hard to remember. Search engines built their empires off of easily memorized names, which is an excellent model to follow.
Great product, but why did they pick such a terrible domain? This is hard to remember. Search engines built their empires off of easily memorized names, which is an excellent model to follow.
Update: Oh, I see, it's all based on trom.tf. That's quite the range of services... seems way too ambitious to be sustainable, though, especially the YouTube competitor...
This probably doesn’t help immediately, but I’ve been working on a platform that does federated search (among other things) for the last year. It’s in private friends-and-family testing and won’t be available for general use for at least a couple more months.
I haven’t even decided on a name yet, but I promise to make a lot of noise about it once it’s in public beta
There is yacy
It's not the most accurate but you can help by adding a server or client to the mix.
A whole bunch of alternatives here, a few federated, quite a few open source:
https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/
(Found via https://marginalia-search.com/ )
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