YaCy – your own search engine

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  • Yacy

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

  • yacy-it

    Discontinued Add browser pages to your local YACY index

    They seem to have a configuration option for it: https://github.com/tecoholic/yacy-it/blob/main/options.html#... but that file isn't present in the most recent tag, so it's possible it just needs a release or you'd need to build the extension from source

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • spyglass

    A personal search engine: Create a searchable library from your personal documents, interests, and more!

    Shameless self-plug, I've been building some similar that you can run locally as an app: https://github.com/a5huynh/spyglass

    You can define some basic rules & it'll go out and crawl those particular sites. Or use one that someone else has built. It can also sync with your Chrome/Firefox bookmarks. Would love feedback from folks who get a chance to use it !

  • goggles-quickstart

    Educational material to learn about Goggles and how to create your own.

    If you haven't heard of [Brave Goggles](https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart) I highly recommend checking it out. Just being able to create the search index is a massive task, so being able to apply rules server-side to their "expanded recall set" will give you what most people building search engines want, which is to control the algorithm. We weren't able to do that until now since applying rules client-side doesn't work well on a small search result set.

    Related: I created a tool to create Goggles using subreddits as a signal source for domains: [Narwhalizer](https://github.com/forcesunseen/narwhalizer)

  • narwhalizer

    Generate Brave Goggles using your favorite subreddit(s).

    If you haven't heard of [Brave Goggles](https://github.com/brave/goggles-quickstart) I highly recommend checking it out. Just being able to create the search index is a massive task, so being able to apply rules server-side to their "expanded recall set" will give you what most people building search engines want, which is to control the algorithm. We weren't able to do that until now since applying rules client-side doesn't work well on a small search result set.

    Related: I created a tool to create Goggles using subreddits as a signal source for domains: [Narwhalizer](https://github.com/forcesunseen/narwhalizer)

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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