> I remember trying it for a while in 2012, but the results were essentially worthless,
I had mine crawling gov, mil, etc sties for pages that Google was starting to delist back then. Inbound requests were heavy with porn until I tweaked - IDK, something.
I got an instance going in a truenas core jail, freebsd and using freebsd java not a linux vm or linux abi compatibility. had to make my own rc script.
Then had to mess with the disk & ram settings to get it to run for more than a day. But the settings are not actually explained at all and whatever they do, they definitely don't do what their names and worthless tooltips say they do.
It seems to be running now indefinitely without killing either itself or the host, in full p2p mode, but I really have no idea why it's working, or really for sur if it actually is fully. I changed "idk, something"
And I don't use it for search myself so far. Maybe some day but for now I'm paying for kagi.
I just like the idea and want it to be a thing, and it seemed a little less "invite a world of shit and attention onto my ip" than running say a tor exit or something. Maybe only a bit less but I'll see how it goes and react if I need to.
I had mine crawling gov, mil, etc sties for pages that Google was starting to delist back then. Inbound requests were heavy with porn until I tweaked - IDK, something.