Gigablast OSS search engine

[Paul van der Vlis]

Op 15-09-16 om 23:57 schreef 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/

Nice design and good idea, but don't know if they have the knowledge to
make a good search engine. Gigablast has something what works, but not
sure it's good enough for me.

Some links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_search_engines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler#Open-source_crawlers

An interesting question: If a website publishes the source code of the
software they are using, how do you know they are not using something
what's modified?

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.

> 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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