PeARS-orchard
yub
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0.0 | 2.6 | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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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...
yub
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Firefox Address Bar Tips
Or make your own, right now, however you like: https://github.com/dohliam/yub. Can't advocate for this wonderful little html file enough.
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Show HN: Bang Bookmarks – replicate DuckDuckGo bangs in Firefox using Keymarks
I do! I missed the "web command-line" functionality so much I made a self-hosted replacement for it that can be run from a local file[0].
If you add it as your default search provider you can use it directly from the address bar, and at that point it works very similarly to DDG bang syntax (although it does a few other things apart from bookmarks as well).
[0]: https://github.com/dohliam/yub
What are some alternatives?
storm-crawler - A scalable, mature and versatile web crawler based on Apache Storm
find - URL & local first client side actions for the browser omnibox
Starthome - Starthome is a basic minimalistic startpage/homepage.
tridactyl - A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl.
massearcher - Search multiple search engines in chrome.
hn-search - Hacker News Search
parquet-floor - A lightweight Java library that facilitates reading and writing Apache Parquet files without Hadoop dependencies
openlibrary - One webpage for every book ever published!
scaling-to-distributed-crawling - Repository for the Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Scaling to Distributed Crawling blogpost with the final code.
Fenix - ⚠️ Fenix (Firefox for Android) moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android
mwmbl - An open source, non-profit search engine implemented in python
duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>