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submitted 2 years ago by ConsciousCode@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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.

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[-] Pasketti@lemmy.jerick.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

No Federation, but Presearch is a Decentralized Search Engine that I've been using for ~6 months now. The results are about what I'd expect from your other major search engines. If you're into crypto they also send you a small portion of their token as a reward when you search, although I don't think they let you withdraw until you get a pretty large amount.

There's an addon for your browser you can download to have it be your default search engine too!

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