This is really really cool. I had earlier wanted to entirely run my searches on it and though that seems possible, I feel like it would be sadly a little bit more waste of time in terms of searches but still I'll maybe try to run some of my searches against this too and give me thoughts on this after doing something like this if I could, like, it is a big hit or miss but it will almost land you to the right spot, like not exactly.

For example, I searched lemmy hoping to find the fediverse and it gave me their liberapay page though.

Please, actually follow up on that common crawl promise and maybe even archive.org or other websites too and I hope that people are spending billions in this AI industry, I just hope that you can whether even through funding or just community crowdwork, actually succeed in creating such an alternative. People are honestly fed up with the current search engine almost monopoly.

Wasn't Ecosia trying to roll out their own search engine, They should definitely take your help or have you in their team..

I just want a decentralized search engine man, I understand that you want to make it sustaianable and that's why you haven't open sourced but please, there is honestly so much money going into potholes doing nothing but make our society worse and this project almost works good enough and has insane potential...

Please open source it and lets hope that the community tries to figure out a way around some ways of monetization/crowd funding to actually make it sustainable

But still, I haven't read the blog post in its entirety since I was so excited that I just started using the search engine.., But I feel like the article feels super indepth and that this idea can definitely help others to create their own proof of concepts or actually create some open source search engine that's decent once and for all.

Not going to lie, But this feels like a little magic and I am all for it. I have never been this excited the more I think about it of such projects in actual months!

I know open source is tough and I come from a third country but this is actually so cool that I will donate ya as much as I can / have for my own right now. Not much around 50$ but this is coming from a guy who has not spent a single penny online and wanting to donate to ya, please I beg ya to open source and use that common crawl, but I just wish you all the best wishes in your life and career man.