Yacy VS duckduckgo-help-pages

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.

It restored: https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo-help-pages/commit/82c121b9a8ffa8b4ae635d4f50e26ebf4a16140b

Link: duckduckgo / duckduckgo-help-pages

There is also a (related, I assume) PR to remove the search syntax page from being published entirely[1]. It's dated December, so it may be fair to assume this has all just been documentation-publishing that hasn't been done yet, as others have posited.

[1] https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo-help-pages/pull/152

When I tried just now again on a different machine, it no longer seems to work. I also found this commit on the help page which I think is where references to the other operators were removed and it's dated for march 3rd, so I think it might be that either the search site was cached somehow or it was not yet updated, which could explain why there was inconsistent behavior between users.

That's a bit of a stretch. One instance of a tracker being enabled contractually, and has been openly communicated on their website since February 2020. That's hardly their "business" now. The fact people choose not to read the information available to them and then complain when they find out later isn't DDG's problem.