Considering the potential of the fediverse, is there any version of that for search engines? Something to break up a major point of internet centralization, fragility, and inertia to change (eg Google will never, ever, offer IPFS searches). Not only would decentralization be inherently beneficial, it would mean we’re no longer compelled to hand over private information to centralized unvetted corporations like Google, Microsoft, and DuckDuckGo.
But Searx isn’t federated in any way is it?
i think it would be a huge undertaking to actually federate a search engine. What gain would you get from federating?
You can setup your own instance of hosting a Searx search engine once yo have a domain.
https://searx.github.io/searx/
yeah i know that. But that wasn’t my question. It’s about the “Federation” Part.
My SearX instance wouldn’t be connected to anyone else’s SearX instance and wouldn’t get any benefit / information from other instances.