[Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox and decentralized search

[Thomas Thorpe]

A little confusion here. I've found "search", "SearchX", and "Searx".

Original link provided by Melvin: http://stats.searx.oe5tpo.com/

1) I also found this URL for "searx": https://www.searx.me/
2) This for "search" (metasearch): https://www.search.com/
3) And this for "searchx": http://searchx.co.za/index.html#1

Just need to clarify, Thanks!

--
Thomas Thorpe


On Sun, 2017-04-30 at 15:49 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Nico Rikken (2017-04-30 11:25:49)
> > I already knew about YaCy for distributed search, but not Searchx.
> > Apparently there is a fundamental difference between the two.
> > Searchx
> > is a metasearch engine, relying on other search engines to do the
> > heavy
> > lifting, but caching and sharing the results between similar
> > instances.
> > YaCy is doing its own scraping.
> > The lower performance requirements, and the Python/JS origin,
> > indeed
> > makes it an interesting project for FreedomBox.
> 
> Interesting for which use case?
> 
> Depending on its design, Searchx may _boost_ the ability for e.g.
> Google 
> to track search patterns of the FreedomBox owner, compared to other 
> approaches (e.g. compare the difference of accessing Google via Tor
> and 
> accessing Google/Bing/whatever fewer times each but _not_ bia Tor).
> 
> 
>  - Jonas
> 
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