It feels strange there’s no decentralised search.

I know this is likely to do with the nature of the problem, but that hasn’t stopped us from getting some wildly-unsuitable decentralised nonsense in the past.

There is, YaCy, it just isn’t very good as it suffers from lack of attention/interest.

Yacy exists but it lacks nodes.

I don't see how being decentralized helps search. Makes it quite harder if the fediverse is any indication