Building a self-hosted search engine, would love some feedback!

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  1. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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  2. PowerToys

    Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that supercharge productivity and customization on Windows

    I've filed a FeatureRequest for some form of solution to run searches or applications with parameters from PowerToys Run here - https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/17356

  3. Yacy

    Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance

    Did you have a look here https://yacy.net

  4. tantivy

    Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust

    In terms of DB backend, the crawl queue and metadata is handled w/ sqlite and the search index (where the bulk of the magic happens) is using tantivy

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