[mikorym]

Can't we have an open source search engine with publicly sourced "indices"? Anyone who wants can then crawl the web and build a graph of parts of the internet. The search part and the crawling code would be open source. What's the problem?

[fghtr]

Here you go: https://yacy.net

[Zhyl]

What's the status with YaCy like these days? I tried installing it about 7 years ago and the results left something to be desired.

[fghtr]

It is still far from being actually useful afaik. We need much more people involved I guess.

[mikorym]

Apart from people, what are the main challenges to get to a stage where it is usable? My guess is that maintaining large indices is nontrivial in multiple aspects.