Yacy VS spyglass

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.

No direct experience but I saved some links about this:

https://wiby.me/about/guide.html

https://github.com/spyglass-search/spyglass

https://yacy.net/

Interesting thread(s) on HN about the last one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32597309

I've been working on a self-hosted personal search app (https://github.com/spyglass-search/spyglass) and have recently been playing around with how to integrate it with local LLMs. I think this would be an awesome step into having your own personal assistant that can search through all your data and give you analysis / summaries.

We have an open-source desktop app (https://github.com/spyglass-search/spyglass) and are working on a web version that has more powerful features such as conversation search, check it out!

I'm one of the devs for Spyglass ([https://github.com/spyglass-search/spyglass](https://github.com/spyglass-search/spyglass)) an open-source personal search app. We're excited about all the advancements with language models recently and wanted to try merging the two ideas together to form something even better.

Another more recently available option is spyglass; it is more tenable than YaCy but dev is mostly on MacOS with focus on a desktop interface. I like the idea of web based interface.

I'm part of small team that's been building an open-source personal search engine (https://github.com/spyglass-search/spyglass). One of the major use cases is searching your local files & their contents which aligns perfectly with how Obsidian stores it notes.

I'm one of the developers of Spyglass (https://github.com/spyglass-search/spyglass), an open-source self-hosted personal search engine. We recently added the ability to search through your Reddit saved & upvoted posts!