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Brad:
I'm still fascinated with the idea of the https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/ script.  What bothers me is it is a scrape metasearch and sooner or later the search engines will shut an instance down. 

I'm wondering if a subscription pay roll your own search service could be put together?  Not really a meta search but more of a blended hybrid search.  I'm not sure where I'm going with this.  I've got all these different parts and theories and I'm trying to piece them all together.

If you could blend search feeds from Yandex, Mojeek and Gigablast together you would have a very good, maybe better than most backfill quality search results.  If Yahoo is still building an index independent of Bing one might throw them in the mix.

You have https://www.curlie.org/ if they ever open the doors again.

Wikipedia

Others that we don't know about.

We had Rollyo and Eurikster be sort of make your own search engines, I'm just wondering if a person could cobble together different sources for a DIY search engine service and would there be any demand?

All hypothetical.

littleman:
Brad, you really should just build yourself a search engine.  You've visited this topic many times over the years.

Added:
http://th3core.com/talk/traffic/to-start-a-search-engine/
https://th3core.com/talk/water-coolerextra/i-kinda-miss-those-5000-search-engines/

Brad:
Point taken. I won't approach the subject again. Thanks.

littleman:
No, I didn't mean to close down the topic!  I was being serious, starting a search engine seems to be something that has occupied your thoughts a lot over the years.  The technology to build and run one has never been easier or less expensive to obtain.  You really should build one!

My own research into the topic showed me that the size of the database surprising is not what drives the experience up sharply, but rather, that comes from traffic.  So, if the business model is sound then your cost grows with the revenue.

Edit: fat thumbs on a phone

Rumbas:
Go for it Brad. Maybe a Th3Core Super Search Thingy?

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