Following up from:
There is something amiss in cyberspace. Searches feel like there is a nanny standing by protecting us from the horrors of alternative takes on world affairs, Google, in particular, is absolutely terrified we could at some stage receive news that is not entirely true (where were they during my childhood and National Enquirer or People Magazine stories of alien abductions). They are so worried that they have assigned all the worst news companies that have lied us into wars, push hopeless nonsense that is quite patently false, and directly lie.... to vet out news sources. I don't know what colour the sky is in Google land but last time I checked we are not all fucking morons. Perhaps 30% of us, sure, and another 30% too busy to bother but the rest of us are not so utterly devoid of our faculties of independent and critical thought that we haven't noticed that after 30 years of global warming panic it hasn't gotten any warmer beyond expected trends (in fact cooling seems to be an issue).
We are not so utterly lacking in mental fortitude as to swallow the rubbish that Google cough's up. Are we?
Censorship is everywhere, a natural successor to "Divide and Rule" means that if we decide today that if, leta say gays or minorities, people of colour or women are to be empowered, we come down hard on any descent.
Problem is we come down once more on those same groups when we later replace them with Transexuals entering female sport (just ask Martina Navratilova) or pot plants running for president or whatever the hell is in vogue. The main point is that we are getting used to being silenced, and the symptoms are everywhere in the PC search environment and MSM or social media environment online.
Problem is we come down once more on those same groups when we later replace them with Transexuals entering female sport (just ask Martina Navratilova) or pot plants running for president or whatever the hell is in vogue. The main point is that we are getting used to being silenced, and the symptoms are everywhere in the PC search environment and MSM or social media environment online.
While the Dark Web is stimulating the revival of a near free market-esque vibe using cryptocurrency to mirror the informal vendors and traders so desperately trying to take back entrepreneurial capitalism from large globalist multinationals, it's not enough. (See fascinating talk in clip below)
We have to build our own search framework around the real world. Establishment search engines are profiled by pro-war, political, partisan, climate change propagandist spin and algorithm weighting. It should be easy to ditch our fetish with some organic gas vital for life, since anyway that is virtue signaling your way to the globalist agenda. Care about the plane? Try getting those behind the AGW movement to stop producing nuclear bombs and millions of tons of plastic waste instead. They are the same people using the same media. We need to stop listening to media cheering for us to keep spending trillions on wars and bailing out banks and spend one tenth of that eliminating homelessness and give everyone basic healthcare. The socialism vs capitalism debate is actually moot unless you consider that society should be judged on how it treats its warmongers and banksters, rather than it's sick and old. Those guys who complain they are paying for the poor are full of shit. The poor are paying for them, do you really want these guys deciding your search parameters by some shadowy unknown policy? Even politicians are sick of it.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/tulsi-gabbard-google-lawsuit-debate-2020-election-tucker
I put it to you that simply searching for correct information would correct the course, and start us back on the road to... we... something other than completely and utterly batshit clueless.
Start with YaCy.
Rather than simply having you type a query into a search box and enjoying results supplied by the engine, YaCy uses installed software through which anyone can contribute to the results, in a decentralized peer-to-peer, crowd-sourced take on Web search. The program also lets organizations build an internal search for their sites or intranets. Finally, YaCy comes with none of the privacy or censorship concerns of Google or the rest, since it doesn't rely on one large company.
This way the more of us that use it, the better the framework of indexed results begins to organically mould towards information we are ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR.
Signup and Setup
YaCy's site claims that installation takes just three minutes, and in my case it actually took less than 2 minutes. Installer software is available for Windows, Mac, and GNU/Linux, each about 20MB in size. Luckily, after this quick installation, you don't have to do your searching in the program; everything is done in the browser, just as with any other search service. But this background operation inevitably drains a bit of your system resources and Internet bandwidth. There is a Performance settings page, where YaCy's priority set set to "below normal" by default, but the interface for throttling down the service's bandwidth usage isn't straightforward.
Interface
A system tray icon is pretty much the extent of the installed program's interface. Double-clicking this opens your default browser to a YaCy Web search box. Along the top of the webpage are tabs for Administration, Web Search, Search Network, Peer Owner Profile, and Help/Wiki. In the tradition of Google, the search interface is barebones: You just get a box under the P2P Web Search title, with the only options at this level being text or images.
A system tray icon is pretty much the extent of the installed program's interface. Double-clicking this opens your default browser to a YaCy Web search box. Along the top of the webpage are tabs for Administration, Web Search, Search Network, Peer Owner Profile, and Help/Wiki. In the tradition of Google, the search interface is barebones: You just get a box under the P2P Web Search title, with the only options at this level being text or images.
A "more options" link lets you tell YaCy how many results to display per page (10, 50, or 100), whether to use the P2P network or just a local index. This page also show some search tricks, like parameters to only show results with a specified phrase in the URL, from a specified site, by a certain author. You can also tell YaCy to sort results by date, nearness of search terms, and language. But doing a lot of this is simpler in Google. Options you won't find in that leader are to include Scroogle results (i.e., Google results scraped clean of ads and cookie tracking) or Blekko results.
If you're fond of using your browser's built-in search, YaCy suggests simply "click-open on the default search engine in the upper right search field of your browser and select Add YaCy Search. This worked fine in Firefox, Chrome, and Opera, but Internet Explorer needs a plugin to be created for its search provider site.
YaCy's Administration tools are where you can choose whether you want to use it for regular Web search with Freeworld, for you own Web pages, or an intranet. You can also change your peer's name and port. To help the search service, you'll need to open a hole in your firewall, which the setup tries to do for you.
