Hello IQfy, I've been building wiby for quite a while and finally have it to a point featurewise where I think it would be useful for other people to build their own search engines. It is meant to run on cheap hardware and be easy to control once its installed. The installation might take you some time though.
The install guide is located at http://wiby.me/about/guide.html
Thank you
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the name sounds like willy and willy means dick lmao
Today OP was not a homosexual.
Very nice.
That is really cool. I will look into it more once I get home
Well done! Frick web 2.0 and 3.0
Thanks anon this is great news.
Will you every make the current index of Wiby public?
>Will you every make the current index of Wiby public?
Probably not. I want to encourage people to build independent indexes, although there's nothing stopping people from putting a shared index together.
>Is it possible to create bundles of different domains to submit all at once
There is the /bulksubmit/ feature that admins can access to submit lists of websites all at once. Not sure what the Amazon completion thing is though.
>I assume it will eat quite a bit of data if you crawl through stack-overflow-like sites and forums.
It sure would. Probably not possible to do something of that scale without lots of money for hardware.
>I want to encourage people to build independent indexes
Why do you want that?
>Why do you want that?
The web is too centralized these days.
Triplet of truth.
Damn! Who's he?
Frank William Abagnale, Jr.
my future wife
Nice job OP. Will try to run it when I'll get an unlimited network plan, I assume it will eat quite a bit of data if you crawl through stack-overflow-like sites and forums.
From what I've so far it seems you create submissions of websites to crawl and the admin adds them into the list of places to checks.
Is it possible to create bundles of different domains to submit all at once, like an easily shareable package / text file with a list and does it supports * completion, something like amazon.* to get all the derivative websites ? Or can you for now only add top level domains one by one.
replied here
thanks for open sourcing it, OP.
will look into it
Are you really the wiby dev? Amazing work!
The first time I tried it was in 2020 and it still had that Google proxy feature lol
Yes, thanks! Its a shame I had to end the google proxy but it was too much of a time sink
Cool project OP
>http://wiby.me/
I see you index Neocities, nice. Google censors it.
Coverage of the Installgentoo Wiki is a bit more sketchy.
Free as in free beer?
im not really sure is that good or bad? Its GPLv2.
Awesome! Wiby is a really cool project and I've shown it to some real life people who aren't IQfy spergs and people like it, at least as a novelty.
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Uhh
How do we know you are actually the developer of wiby?
you dont, and thats the beauty of /gee/
unless someone's been lying in autistic wait for the github user wibyweb to post source code after having no activity for over a year and then rushing to make a IQfy post, it's more than likely the real dev, but then again
>someone's been lying in autistic wait
Sounds like IQfy.
>How do we know you are actually the developer of wiby?
You'll never know for sure and I would always keep it that way.
Thank you. I have not tried gentoo but do have an Arch laptop and a m.2 Arch recovery drive on my pc.
The index is slowly growing as more people submit pages.
It is a good alternative and its good alternatives exist
No thank you! I'm glad that people enjoy it
cheers
is this the mongoloid effect or was this called "wibr" once upon a time? i remember you first dropping this on here
didn't know you were a fellow IQfyentooman. thank you for your service.
lookin good op
#cloudhired
Would love to contribute to the project, because I've tried several times, and to be honest the search results are really unsatisfactory. But Im glad there is a search engine that is truly anti-corpo
There's another one I've also seen before called Marginalia (looks like it went open source 2 months ago too). Not quite the same concept as Wiby though since Wiby aims to crawl simple websites whereas Marginalia just removes the centralized corporation ones afaik.
+1 internet
Ayy thanks so much OP.
Wiby is really nice, although I don't use it that often.
You have also reminded me that I gotta submit a few websites.
Anyway, cheers! To you!
You're a saint. Thank you!
Wait... a thread that's actually... about something? Where's the coffee?
based. I use wiby occasionally and always enjoy the results. thanks for your work if its really you.
what are the requirements for the PHP version?
install php and php-gd, which is already listed as a req in the guide anyway
cheers friend
>php and php-gd
which one, 7.2/7.3/5.6 or what
7.0 and up
I probably don't have a use case for this myself, but you made the right choice, OP. Thank you.
I saw your post on HN, keep it up, homosexual!
does it have federation of sorts?
OP delivered, thank you. I will look into it and use it.
This vs searx?
Brave Search >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Shitx > Wiby
Kys
Why are there so many pajeet morons like on IQfy?
>he trusts his search history to a marketing company.
you can use it as part of searx
What a stupid gimmick of a site.
You got what you searched for, what is your problem?
You are a literal idiot.
the best way to use wiby, in my opinion, is to just use the "surprise me..." feature. It brings back that adventurous feeling of the old internet.
Wiby is awesome so I will definitely read through this later, one thing I am curious about though is are there any protections in place for SQL injection by default in the application server? Considering how long Wiby the website has been up I'm assuming that is protected against SQLi, but just wondering if that protection is part of the source code or something on your hosted instance specifically. Or maybe SQLi isn't a problem for generic web apps using LAMP/LEMP anymore, I haven't done any web hosting in a long time
Injection protection is built in.
Cool thanks
good shit op
Thanks man wiby is great.Keep up the good work
Wiby in Spanish is the most common slang for boy dick, usually a nickname to talk about a kid's willy without sounding like a creep.
%8 of the global population which speaks Spanish is now going to be thinking about little boy dick every time they use Wiby or are told to "wiby" something.
#NamingFail
>Wiby in Spanish is the most common slang for boy dick
I did not know that and I also don't care. Wiby also appears to be a name in some asian regions.
Third-worlders filtered out by default? This just keeps getting better
I speak spanish and that's not true. Which shithole country are you from?
spanish speaker here, never in my life have I ever heard of this word, must be some chilean "spanish" slang or you're just a moron
Thank you for confirming the troll post
Why did you write certain components in c
I enjoy it for its speed and the challenge because its deceptively hard at managing memory. Someone once said its like riding a motorcycle.
Bump.
The only good thread on this board.
Amazing work, OP.
thank you anon
appreciated
>I'd think it would take a lot of time/resources to index content from human intervention
In my case, people willingly stepped up anonymously to submit content. It is still a slow process, but its not resource intensive with anonymous help. Make no mistake it takes effort to build an index and there is no free lunch to it. You can try scouring the entire web with a more widespread crawling approach, but expect to spend a lot more money with that approach.
>Wouldn't I need to manually arrange for individual sites to crawl to create my "Japanese RPG index" source?
Yes you would, but hopefully you aren't the only one doing the work, hopefully there are other people helping you to make submissions.
In Google's case, it wasn't actually just two developers building the search engine, they had a host of other people helping them develop it as well as millions of dollars. Today, I heard that Alphabet employes something like 20k people involved in "reviewing" things they are indexing. In other words, they have an army of people involved in curation of their index. It is not fully automated.
Ultimately it is a huge win for ordinary people to be able to host their own search engines instead of being relegated just to link directories.
Thanks for taking the time to explain this further to me. Helps for me to build a stronger understanding and perspective. In a way, it feels as if this online landscape that is more streamlined and broadly-indexed is, in a way, significantly more confined and isolated. As such, it is neat to see projects like this that challenge this ethos. Keep it up, OP.
No problem
> In a way, it feels as if this online landscape that is more streamlined and broadly-indexed is, in a way, significantly more confined and isolated
I think its something to do with traffic being too centralized around only a few centers. Despite there being far more people online than before, the universe feels smaller.
>an army of people involved in curation of their index
This could explain why they make Installgentoo WIki and Neocities practically invisible on their search engines. And it is evil.
I wanted to come into this thread and dump on you OP but this is very cool. Good work.
Would you mind explaining the practical information gathering benefits of using something like this beyond, say:
>Avoiding censorship
>Privacy control
>No ads
>Debloated results
It's not like managing control over those things is unimportant, but I'd think it would take a lot of time/resources to index content from human intervention, at least to a useful degree when it comes to specific information gathering. For example, say I play Japanese-language games and want a guide, store, or other resource, and all those resources are split between sites for various games. Wouldn't I need to manually arrange for individual sites to crawl to create my "Japanese RPG index" source? In that case, I might need to use another engine anyway if I don't know of them currently.
I want to clarify that I do think the project looks cool. I like the idea of a debloated, FOSS search engine without an obscene amount of unrelated results vying for my attention. Maybe if this gets enough traction, you can get some Linux distros to use this in their default browsers too.
based site, thank you OP. what user agent does your crawler use? i want to whitelist it and submit my shit
you can whitelist this IP: 172.93.49.59
thanks anon
Based as frick, you're awesome OP
I've used wiby a couple of times before, glad to see it's still going strong
I cannot believe someone in here produced something useful.
What's the catch?
The catch is that when you use it, you don't get the pleasure of knowing that you are benefiting a progressive company that appreciates diversity and the environment like Google.