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i686-powered lia

It's crazy that in the context of my #web experience, @marginalia went from a fun but ultimately impractical diversion to literally the only way the #internet is browsable for me now.

Try using any #searchEngine to look up any broad question that's #tech, #household or #life related. Almost all results will be extremely verbose, LLM generated, pointless (and/or product ads).

On #Marginalia, I found real, human-written and most importantly, *useful* information immediately.

#MarginaliaSearch
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Jeremie

🧵 And now, the part 4 or my series of articles on how to build a #crossplatform #searchengine, in #rustlang.

📰 This article is about how we query the indexes, aggregate the results and generate some scores.

💬 Enjoy reading it, feel free to provide me some feedback, here or directly on GitHub 😃

:fediverse: If you enjoy it, feel free to share it on other platforms!

🔗 Here is the link: jdrouet.github.io/posts/202503

jdrouet · Building a search engine from scratch, in Rust: part 4Or how we'll find something in all this.
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Jeremie

🧵 And now, the part 3 or my series of articles on how to build a #crossplatform #searchengine, in #rustlang.

📰 This article is about how the sharding mechanism works.

💬 Enjoy reading it, feel free to provide me some feedback, here or directly on GitHub 😃

:fediverse: If you enjoy it, feel free to share it on other platforms!

🔗 Here is the link: jdrouet.github.io/posts/202503

jdrouet · Building a search engine from scratch, in Rust: part 3Or how we'll implement sharding and transactions for our search engine.
#encryption#opensource#wasm
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All Europeans 🇪🇺

@mkj @antonyh

There's this map made by Mojeek that shows how many alternative search engines use Google/Bing services.

The Search Engine Map by @Mojeek social.vivaldi.net/@ueeu/11417

As for Qwant and Ecosia's reliance on Bing, it's partial - when their index isn't enough to deliver results, they turn to Bing, for example for images, recent news, etc. They're both working on a European index to be released in 2025:

The European search engines (and competitors) Ecosia 🇩🇪 and Qwant 🇫🇷are joining forces to build their own European search index
social.vivaldi.net/@ueeu/11412

Web indexing: where is Qwant's independence? social.vivaldi.net/@ueeu/11417

Vivaldi SocialAll Europeans 🇪🇺 (@ueeu@vivaldi.net)Attached: 1 image The Search Engine Map by @Mojeek@mastodon.social The map is interactive, so you can click on each circle to find out more about the different search engines. We'd love to know when the map was made, as some of the info looks out of date, but unfortunately we couldn't find that information. And the repo on GitHub no longer exists! European search engines listed: Mojeek 🇬🇧 Oscobo 🇬🇧 Entireweb 🇸🇪 Metager 🇩🇪 Ecosia 🇩🇪 Lilo 🇫🇷 Qwant 🇫🇷 eTools.ch 🇨🇭 Swisscows 🇨🇭 ZapMeta 🇳🇱 Startpage 🇳🇱 https://www.searchenginemap.com/ #SearchEngine #europeanalternatives
#qwant#ecosia#SearchEngine
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Working Class Games

Was trying a duckduckgo search for a restaurant in town, and I clicked on a link to read it, then came back to the search results. Suddenly a bunch of links disappeared and the first two links were now tripadvisor.

I selected hide site from these results and immediately a tripadvisor link from another url (different country) pops up. I kind of kept going and hiding about 15 results and new tripadvisor links kept popping up. This went on until "Search query entered was too long. Please shorten and try again."

So is this a bing-underneath thing, or direct enshittification of duckduckgo?

This is while using uBlockOrigin, but that didn't help, I didn't see any way that the ads differed from the normal links either.

#search#searchEngine#enshittification
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Jeremie

🧵 Following part 1, here is the part 2 of my series of articles on how to build a #crossplatform search engine from scratch, in #rustlang .

📰 This article is about how we go from a document to a set of structured indexes.

💬 Enjoy reading it, feel free to provide some feedback, here or directly on GitHub 😉

🔗 Here is the link: jdrouet.github.io/posts/202503

jdrouet · Building a search engine from scratch, in Rust: part 2Or how we'll go from a set of documents to a set of structured indexes.
#encryption#searchengine#opensource
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Eelco Mulder :mastodon:

By a post of @ueeu I came across the searchengine @MetaGer

As I am still looking around for a good searchengine, and as MetaGer has it's own Mastodon instance, I got interested.

MetaGer says it's a fully privacy focussed search engine, subscription based and located in Germany. It looks a bit like the European 🇪🇺 counterpart of Kagi.

metager.org/

Does anyone have experience with this searchengine? Should I buy a token and test them?

metager.orgMetaGer: Privacy Protected Search & FindSearch safely while having your privacy respected. The digital knowledge of the world must be freely accessible without paternalism and abide by states or corporations.
#searchengine#surveillancecapitalism#privacy
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Jeremie

Following the introduction, here is the part 1 of my series of articles on how to build a crossplatform search engine from scratch, in #rustlang.

This section will handle how we'll store the encrypted data on any platform.

Enjoy reading it, feel free to provide some feedback, here or directly on GitHub 😉

jdrouet.github.io/posts/202503

jdrouet · Building a search engine from scratch, in Rust: part 1Or how to write on disk efficiently in the browser or any other device.
#rust#encryption#searchengine
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