cll7793Jul 31, 2023

Can a search engine be selfhosted?

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Can a search engine be selfhosted? - Lemmy.world

The quality of search engines has gone down so much for technical questions. I’m looking for a way to index sites like stack exchanges, reddit, quora, and research papers. Would this be possible to do this locally with metadata?

Show threadAdmiral Patrick

I mean, you can easily host a meta-search engine like Searx, Searx-ng, Whoogle, etc. I run Searx-ng and it sends your queries to multiple engines and shows them to you.

To host your own, you’d need to crawl and index every site. It’s certainly doable, but it would take a lot of time /effort.

Jul 31, 2023 at 5:01pmWeb
Show threadPlexSheepJul 31, 2023
I agree. Selfhosting a true search engine is way too much work and infeasible for individuals. Meta search engines however are very feasible and a great option.