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1. Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Feb-2023 08:32:12 JST Adrian Cochrane

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   • myrmepropagandist
   • Samuel Smith ✅

   @futurebird @Jirikiha I believe SearchMySite.Net is more what you're after?

   Which is built upon Solr & Scrapy, if you want to deploy your own. Takes a lot of work to gather an index.

   • myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 27-Feb-2023 08:32:13 JST myrmepropagandist

     in reply to

     • Samuel Smith ✅

     @Jirikiha

     This doesn't address my problem with search engines at all. My issue isn't that I want privacy (though that might be nice) it's that I can't find what I'm looking for even though I know it's there.

     I can't find it because the pages I'm looking for either aren't indexed or they are too low ranked to come up.

     I can remember exact phrases, unique usernames that once would have pulled these results but now it's impossible.

     I need my own full text index of the places I care about.

   • Samuel Smith ✅ (jirikiha@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Monday, 27-Feb-2023 08:32:16 JST Samuel Smith ✅

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     • myrmepropagandist
     • Jason Scott

     @futurebird @textfiles you can adapt an open search engine, I would think.
     Try this one for starters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifT6npY39Dw
     Network Chuck shows you how to install your own search engine, and from there you can customize it the way you want.

   • myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 27-Feb-2023 08:32:17 JST myrmepropagandist

     • Jason Scott

     Hi Jason,

     Suppose that I wanted my own search engine. I want to enter some URLs index of all of the content I've posted over a bunch of social media, wikipedia, everything2 and more so that I can find old things that I've posted and things from a few friends. I want a real text search no "did you mean?" or anything.

     Can this be done? Is there a packaged product to do it easily? How much might it cost?

     Tired of remembering something I wrote and not being able to find it.

     @textfiles