Ask HN: If you hate Google 2022, why not making your Google 2012?

[frozencell]

Most of the source code of Google 2022 seem to be on Github separated (PageRank, MapReduce, Freebase, Graphd, etc.). Why isn't there no unified open source 2012 Google-like search engine?

[fsflover]

https://yacy.net

[ffhhj]

Why following the same steps in the wrong direction?

When future search engines begin receiving feedback from users and ranking accordingly Google will become irrelevant.

[tkiolp4]

To compete with Google you can’t just use their legacy tech (pagerank, mapreduce, etc.), you have to come with a better tech.

[freemint]

If the legacy code runs faster on modern hardware then the modern code, wouldn't that be a competitive advantage?

[waterfallr]

I don’t hate google but Google is not just search, it’s an ecosystem. OS, browser, email, search etc.

Wrt to Search,

Scale: Huge cost of infrastructure, data is privatize.

You could run a hobby scale pagerank but for searching web it would be a needle in a haystack.

They have competition like yandex, nacy, baidu but are not for English web and not open source

[jfoster]

In 2022, Android & Chrome are the most valuable pieces of Google.

For instance, if Microsoft controlled them, they could just point the search functionality toward Bing, and most users mightn't even notice.

[8note]

Running indexes and crawlers is expensive and google has monopoly power on monetizing them

[scottmcdot]

Can we give up our CPU during off peak hours to contribute to crawling? I would do this in return for a Google 2012.

[is_true]

I think that the next search engine is gonna be a service that has an advantage using a technique to identify quality content and ditching the rest, most of the internet is just noise.

[speedgoose]

I don’t have the resource to run a 2012 search engine. Even with the CommonCrawl dataset, it’s extremely expensive and also not environmental friendly.