Gigablast OSS search engine

[Henning Jacobs]

I did not know about Gigablast (yet).

Here some other ambitious OSS search engine project (does not try to
mimic Google, aims for the 90% use case): https://about.commonsearch.org/

On 15.09.2016 20:07, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I found an open source search engine, what looks-like useable:
> https://gigablast.com/
> Strange that I've never heard of it before, it's OSS since 2013:
> http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gigablast-now-an-open-source-search-engine-217624911.html
> 
> When I search for the word "license" in the source code I find many
> different licenses like GPL2 or higher, LGPL, MIT, Apache, Lucent,
> OpenSSL, Eric Young.
> https://github.com/gigablast/open-source-search-engine/search?p=2&q=license&utf8=%E2%9C%93
> 
> The search engine did not found all pages, but after adding them
> everything was found directly. http://www.gigablast.com/addurl
> And many sites are allready indexed.
> 
> There is an advanced search with many possibilities:
> http://www.gigablast.com/adv.html
> 
> Disadvantage: There is also a "commercial version" what seems to be
> faster, not sure about the license there. Not sure what I am using when
> I use the webinterface at Gigablast.com. Does somebody know someone who
> uses for sure the OSS version?
> 
> Yes, I've heard about YaCy. But when I tested it, I found it not
> useable. e.g. here: http://5.45.105.16:18091/ more sites here:
> http://www.yacyweb.de/peers.htm
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> With regards,
> Paul van der Vlis.
> 
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