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SearNGX should be a federated search engine
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Are you thinking of YaCy?
Ah, I wondered if something like that had been tried before. Looks like it is maybe still running: https://yacy.net/
The demo isn't giving me useful search results.
I ran an instance for a while out of curiosity a few years back - building the database seemed to work fine and appeared like a good idea, had a lot of fun to see the connections with other servers and my crawler filling holes of unknown spaces. But I think the search algorithm itself was (most likely is) not sophisticated enough, it just did not give relevant results often enough, and it was extremely vulnerable to very simple SEO tactics to push trash to the top.