What does HackerNews think of open-source-search-engine?
Nov 20 2017 -- A distributed open source search engine and spider/crawler written in C/C++ for Linux on Intel/AMD. From gigablast dot com, which has binaries for download. See the README.md file at the very bottom of this page for instructions.
It hasn't escaped the wider world that quality open-source search is desirable, and it's hard to think what this new EU project brings to the table that isn't already available if others want to contribute to existing efforts. I wish the EU project the best of luck of course!
They offer "stripped" which removes many tracking parts of the website. Additionally it could be useful for individuals that are on a degraded network connection (different parts of the world).
It also has an API which I haven't interacted with but seems neat. I just figured I would share it.
Some facts about the engine:
The code compiles into a single executable file which can scale on thousands servers.
It is easily configurable and has a nice documentation [2].
The code is very stable, it works in production since 2002.
Document processing is done using plugins, so you can write a plugin for any type of documents.
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I would like to see a search engine based on this in the dark-nets, particularly in I2P.
[0] - http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gigablast-now-an-ope...
[1] - https://github.com/gigablast/open-source-search-engine