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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:"):
tezoatlipoca@mas.to ("Third spruce tree on the left") wrote:
Yeah. DDG etc. are search "brokers" in a way - but they license index/crawled results from Bing etc.
Running the engines to index/crawl _the whole web_ is a real computationally expensive affair. There've been a few attempts at peer-2-peer or indie indexing but its a hard problem to solve so those don't go very far.