#gigablast — Public Fediverse posts

Just switched my computer from an old media server to an old PC I built ~2020 and my bro upgraded my graphics card to one that is only ~9 year old tech. It's a big improvement for gaming compared to what I had before.

Also, I dumped Ubuntu and I've got pretty much everything back up and running with Debian.

Also, I switched my search engine in Librewolf to Gigablast, which is an open source search engine and much faster than DuckDuckGo so far.

#debian #ubuntu #linux #gaming #gigablast #duckduckgo #foss #nvidia #geforce #gtx1070

Ruh Roh❕

When you break the #Google with a legitimate question but #Skynet's AI is too busy searching for #Sarah_Connor to notice that it's been 17 minutes and still hasn't timed out, lolz 🤘💀🤘

#tallship #AltaVista #Inktomi #DMOZ #Curly #AskJeeves #GNUhoo #Bing #GigaBlast #InfoSeek and other dead horses. You no can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔

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Ruh Roh❕

When you break the #Google with a legitimate question but #Skynet's AI is too busy searching for #Sarah_Connor to notice that it's been 17 minutes and still hasn't timed out, lolz 🤘💀🤘

#tallship #AltaVista #Inktomi #DMOZ #Curly #AskJeeves #GNUhoo #Bing #GigaBlast #InfoSeek and other dead horses. You no can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔

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Ruh Roh❕

When you break the #Google with a legitimate question but #Skynet's AI is too busy searching for #Sarah_Connor to notice that it's been 17 minutes and still hasn't timed out, lolz 🤘💀🤘

#tallship #AltaVista #Inktomi #DMOZ #Curly #AskJeeves #GNUhoo #Bing #GigaBlast #InfoSeek and other dead horses. You no can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔

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@smallcircles

More #AYBABTU

Even though it was a proprietary solution (with an open source base), I really miss #GigaBlast - last I checked there was still no word on why it went offline about a year ago.

@Mojeek, something else for that big list of requests: a way to reach your cache. Google just discontinued¹ access to their cache. Cache access is extremely important because #Mojeek search results often lead to exclusive gate-kept websites like Cloudflare. We need a way to reach that content when it appears in search results. This is what stops me from using Mojeek. #Searx instances offer a cache option (though they cheat and just redirect to archive.org).

Long-shot: are there any mojeek syndicates that have a search UI that offers a mirror or cache alternate link?

BTW, your article mentions #Gigablast but i think they’re gone now.

1) It’s unclear what happened with Google. They said they will stop caching sites but that’s obviously not true because they need the cache inherently for indexation. Which suggests they intend to make it inaccessible to the public. Though if that’s true, then it would be all-or-nothing, not continued access to old caches.

@strypey @zeh @alcinnz

Indeed mojeek.com is not the only non-tech-giant #searchEngine (+crawler). From strypey’s mentions + some of my notes:

* #Mojeek ← does their own crawling
* #Metager.org ← does their own crawling
* #SearchMySite.net ← avoid (Cloudflare)
* #Searx ← just proxy software, many instances
* #4get ← another proxy software, about a dozen instances: https://4get.ca/instances
* #Gigablast ← does their own crawling, but what happened?.. they were dissolved last year & seem to now be www.alltheinternet.com
* #Ombrelo ← a proxy but more advanced than the others (filters/downranks Cloudflare sites)

#YaCy is notable because it’s a crawler that you can install and operate yourself. YaCy instances can be public-facing and they can also share indexes with each other fedi style apparently. Some Searx instances tap YaCy instances.

I would love to find a searx or 4get instance that rejects the tech giants, but aggregates from YaCy, mojeek, gigablast, metager, maginalia.nu, frogfind.com, & wiby.me.

And I would love it even more if it would make replacements:

* #StackExchange → #AnonymousOverflow
* #YouTube → #Invideous
* #Medium.com → scribe.rip
* #BBC → BBC’s onion site
* #NYTimes → New York Times’s onion site
* etc.

search.fabiomanganiello.com makes some of those replacements.

@tinker @andre
I miss https://github.com/gigablast/open-source-search-engine

No real info on what precipitated its vaporization earlier this year after so long valiantly serving the community:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigablast

I suspect it may have been somehow related to the fiasco with freenode and Crown Prince Andrew Lee, but that's a reach.

#tallship #GigaBlast #search_engines #FOSS

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I was looking into browsers, and this led to checking out if there is an open source search engine out there.

Gigablast, created years ago by a former Infoseek employee (Matt Wells), did have its source code released to the public. However, it recently went AWOL. It's too bad. I always hope that open source solutions could equal or better their proprietary competitors, but not in this case.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gigablast-now-an-open-source-search-engine-217624911.html

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-02-14/google-news-media-bargaining-code-build-search-engine/13143582

#SearchEngine #Google #Gigablast #OpenSource

Too bad: It seems that #Gigablast went offline in April without an official statement. This was one of the few search engines that had its own crawler...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigablast

Sad to read from the @Mojeek newsletter that #Gigablast has gone. 🙁 https://blog.mojeek.com/2023/05/farewell-gigablast.html #SearchEngines

does anyone know what happened to #gigablast? It has been offline for at least a day or two. I don't see #MattWells on Mastodon.

#search #SearchEngine

Missing Link: Offener Web-Index soll Europa bei der Suche unabhängig machen

Mit der von der EU geförderten Entwicklung eines Open Web Index wollen Forscher die Dominanz von Google & Co. brechen und das menschliche Wissen verbreitern.

http://heise.de/-7466867

https://OpenWebSearch.EU

#SearchEngine #eu #OWI #EuropeanOpenWebIndex #OWSAI #OpenWebSearchAndAnalysisInfrastructure #OpenWebSearch #Suma #OSF #Serci #StormCrawler

Ferner #Gigablast #FindX #Quaero #Theseus #CommonCrawls

@webmink @ademalsasa @jon @ruario

Yes at some point I think we're (all of us, collectively) going to have to develop thick skin, double down, and begin to see these dominant infra services as themselves #malware, instead of viable tools - crap DNS providers too!

#Vivaldi itself is launching search services, #Brave successfully already has, and #Gigablast isn't going anywhere:

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=hoUzcU76u3I&local=true

Accelerated #Fediverse and other self_hosting and ignore them and fracture the #Internet

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Differenze tra i motori di ricerca

Sapevate che su Wikipedia è presente una bella tabella comparativa per vedere con semplicità le differenze tra i motori di ricerca?

LINK --> https://www.lealternative.net/2022/09/02/differenze-tra-i-motori-di-ricerca/

#Curiosità #baidu #bing #comparazione #duckduckgo #gigablast #google #motorediricerca #ricerca #searx #wikipedia #yaci

@blacklight Some searx instances are fed by a locally running #yacy which does the crawling, so you can also get a greater degree of independence from the giants. I noticed a lot of your results grab from both DDG & Qwant. Both DDG & Qwant are MS syndicates, so you could drop one of them and replace with #Mojeek or #Gigablast (which do their own independent crawling).

@matt
Browser: Firefox
search engine depends on the task.
- #duckduckgo
- #whoogle
- #yandex
- #runnaroo (not anymore. rip)
- #metager
- #qwant
- #izito
- #peekier
- #gigablast
- you.com

In this post, I list a number of quality alternative search engines and content about alternative search engines. I also offer my thoughts on the importance of considering where search results come from.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/a-2021-list-of-alternative-search-engines-and-search-resources/

#searchengine #alternative #bigtech #google #bing #duckduckgo #qwant #startpage #swisscows #mojeek #metager #gigablast #searx #peekier #wutsearch #privacy #newleafjournal #TheNewLeafJournal

If a link is missing from #Gigablast, you can add it for as little as 25 cents. $5 deposit and signup required.

Ich hab heute eine neue datenschutzfreundliche #Suchmaschine gefunden und die macht einen sehr guten Eindruck 👍 https://private.sh bezieht seine Inhalte von https://gigablast.com ,was ein #OpenSource Projekt unter https://github.com/gigablast/open-source-search-engine ist 👍 Auf #Werbung scheint #PrivateSH komplett zu verzichten,auch Verbindungen zu Drittanbietern werden keine aufgebaut 👍 Die Qualitaet der Ergebnisse ist mit https://mojeek.com vergleichbar,was ebenfalls eine unabhaengige,datenschutzfreundliche und absolut empfehlenswerte Suchmaschine ist 👍 Der Vorteil von Private.sh gegenueber der normalen #GigaBlast Webseite ist,dass das Design viel moderner und uebersichtlicher ist 👍 Das einzige,was ich an der Seite leider bemaengeln muss: Gehostet wird sie bei #Amazon AWS in den USA 👎 Das Gesamtbild wirkt aber ueberzeugend fuer mich,deshalb kann ich diese Suchmaschine nur empfehlen,wenn noch jemand auf der Suche nach seiner passenden Suche ist 👍