PeARS-orchard
crawler-extension
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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PeARS-orchard
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Welcome to mwmbl, the free, open-source and non-profit search engine
> We now have a distributed crawler that runs on our volunteers' machines! If you have Firefox you can help out by installing our extension.
This is a very interesting idea that other search engines have tried before. Actually, the Brave search engine is built over Cliqz[6] that implemented this same idea but *without* the user's consent.
Copy pasting from an old comment I made about this "human web" crawler idea:
Both PeARS[1] and Cliqz[2] tried to do that. Both got direct support from Mozilla[3][4] but it looks like neither really kicked off.
PeARS was meant to be installed voluntarily by users who would then choose to share their indexes only to those they personally trusted, so the idea is very privacy conscious but also very hard to scale.
Cliqz, on the other hand, apparently tried to work around that issue by having their add-on bundled by default in some Firefox installations[5] which was obviously very controversial because of its privacy and user consent implications.
I still think the idea has potential, though, even if it's in a more limited scope.
[1] https://github.com/PeARSearch/PeARS-orchard
[2] https://cliqz.com/en/whycliqz/human-web
[3] https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2016/06/22/mozilla-gives-3...
[4] https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2016/08/23/mozilla-makes-s...
[5] https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-tests-cliqz-engine-whi...
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/03/brave_buys_a_search_e...
crawler-extension
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Welcome to mwmbl, the free, open-source and non-profit search engine
Thank you for sharing this, this is very interesting. I will give it a try, although I don't think it can replace my current engine (DuckDuckGo/Searx), but rahter complement it maybe (by having a smaller, more curated set of data).
Particularly I am having a great time reading the crawler extension source-code: https://github.com/mwmbl/crawler-extension
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Show HN: Create Tours for Your GitHub Projects
This looks cool, but I'm not familiar with the concept of a "tour" for a project. Can you point me to an example?
I'm currently trying to promote my open source project Mwmbl (in particular the crawler extension https://github.com/mwmbl/crawler-extension). I'm wondering what a tour would look like for it.
- Show HN: An open source web crawler for the Mwmbl non-profit search engine
- Show HN: Mwmbl crawler extension: crawl the web from Firefox
What are some alternatives?
storm-crawler - A scalable, mature and versatile web crawler based on Apache Storm
searxng - SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
Starthome - Starthome is a basic minimalistic startpage/homepage.
parquet-floor - A lightweight Java library that facilitates reading and writing Apache Parquet files without Hadoop dependencies
massearcher - Search multiple search engines in chrome.
Mumble - Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.
docli - Command-line interfaces made easy
scaling-to-distributed-crawling - Repository for the Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Scaling to Distributed Crawling blogpost with the final code.
crawler-server - Server for the Mwmbl crawler
mwmbl - An open source, non-profit search engine implemented in python
Yacy - Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance