I noticed that Google doesn't work for me anymore. I think what I need is a search engine that I run myself and that just indexes sites I already read, like mainly programming documentation. I am happy to manually add websites, I just want it to find all of the internal links and do a full text index. Any recommendations on the fastest, least painful thing to install for this?

@brandon Exactly what I've been wanting. Thinking I'll feed my browser history and links from various chats into it once I get the base figured out

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@brandon some wget and a postgres instance can probably get you far. If you find a perfect tool though do ping me 🙏

@mauve Haha, well, I’m quite versant in recursive wget and I've built my own full text search before with Lucene. I was hoping for like a docker install, though. I already have so many projects, that's why I need to google some docs in the first place.

@mauve It's YaCy for the win. Still?! Indeed! It seems like work on web search engines plateaued around 2003. It works fine, though. Docker install, runs on ARM, private search engine, manual site additions, automated page crawling, full text search.

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