ipfs-search VS Yacy

Admarus is a decentralized alternative to ipfs-search

You can also use this search engine: https://ipfs-search.com

ipfs-search.com doesnt allow user submission, but you can use tools like public-gateway-cacher to increase the chances that their dht listener hears of it.

IPFS Search https://ipfs-search.com

There's not any main search portal that I know of. I mean, there's this, https://github.com/ipfs-search/ipfs-search / https://ipfs-search.com/ Which afaik looks at the DHT traffic or similar. I'm not great at getting useful results from that, maybe you'll have better luck. r/IPFS_Hashes is a place for people to post things they're hosting.

There is already ipfs-search.com, which uses an open source byte analyzer to figure out what type of file it runs into.

IPFS though has a search engine, https://ipfs-search.com/#/, which seems to work pretty good.

ENS (.eth, .sol, .luna), Unstoppable domains, handshake/namebase, IPFS websites, onion/i2p/zeronet/freenet/lokinet and others will need to get indexed and accessible by a search engine easily by a normal user. Until then, all of these trying to counter ICANN are pretty much useless.

I didnt look into the wallet’s transactions yet, but i searched the NFT names on this IPFS search engine https://ipfs-search.com/ and it came up empty. I don’t know all the specifics of which NFTs end up on the ipfs but the dumb ones my little bro and I minted for curiosity on Solana were on there. I dont know if the search engine is comprehensive, but it’s something—another data point.

https://github.com/ipfs-search/ipfs-search#building

Nodes announce the hashes they know about so you could sniff this gossip and then build a search engine on top of it which is how ipfs-search works.

It turns out you can make it all the way to become president of Harvard [1] while ignoring this rule so it is questionable whether it is as set in stone as you make it out to be, at least in certain disciplines.

In a way these models are a perfect mirror of the current academic climate. They plagiarise without remorse, they follow the latest identity-politics diktat to a point and make up 'facts' when needed to reach a desired narrative. Google Gemini is the latest example [2] of where this leads.

Given that it is plausible that models like these will soon be used in educational settings this is a recipe for disaster. The same goes for the trend to replace search engine results with 'interpreted' results in which LLMs take up the same role as Winston in 1984: Winston works in the Ministry of Truth where he alters historical records to fit the needs of the Party.

It is time for a decentralised distributed search engine which limits itself to pure search, something like YaCy [3]. Something to replace Winstonian search engines like Google and Bing (et al.).

[1] https://www.campusreform.org/article/claudine-gay-is-a-dei-h...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465255

[3] https://yacy.net/

> Now I just need some kind of open source search engine to run on it ...

Here you go: https://yacy.net

I remember https://yacy.net/ but the big problem of this project was java and had not implementations in others languages. I mean it as imagine torrent was only in perl.

Admarus is similar as Yacy but aims to be distributed where Yacy is federated. Both are made for the web

You should check out https://yacy.net: a global, P2P web search engine, where each peer can build and share its own index, etc.

I also have an instance of Yacy installed, which I use to index the entire system, giving me my own private, internal search engine.