Can a search engine be selfhosted?
Can a search engine be selfhosted?
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.