PeARS-orchard
parquet-floor
| PeARS-orchard | parquet-floor | |
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| 35 | 37 | |
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| 0.0 | 5.0 | |
| 8 days ago | about 13 hours ago | |
| HTML | Java | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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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...
parquet-floor
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Welcome to mwmbl, the free, open-source and non-profit search engine
ChatGPT has other failure modes. When a question doesn't have an answer written down somewhere, it really struggles. A case is something like "how do I write a parquet file in Java without using Hadoop".
This not at all trivial but quite possible[1], but ChatGPT will in 100% of the time either hallucinate APIs, disregard the instructions to not use Hadoop or give otherwise plausible but incorrect-looking answers.
The trick is that it isn't doable by simply finding the correct dependencies and API calls, you need extract and override filesystem classes from the Hadoop project to cut those ties.
[1] https://github.com/strategicblue/parquet-floor
What are some alternatives?
storm-crawler - A scalable, mature and versatile web crawler based on Apache Storm
crawler-extension - A browser extension that can be installed by volunteers to participate in mwmbl distributed crawling.
Starthome - Starthome is a basic minimalistic startpage/homepage.
Yacy - Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance
massearcher - Search multiple search engines in chrome.
Apache Parquet - Apache Parquet
scaling-to-distributed-crawling - Repository for the Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Scaling to Distributed Crawling blogpost with the final code.
mwmbl - An open source, non-profit search engine implemented in python
Apache Drill - Apache Drill is a distributed MPP query layer for self describing data
Mumble - Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.