Serious question, why do we give so much power to these tech firms such as Google, when really the solution is decentralization. We have some solutions for money with bitcoin, but there still doesn’t seem to be a viable alternative with a search engine that is decentralized?

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    4 years ago

    biggest problem with yacy is that is slow java, they should had done this on C or GO/RUST now a days

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      4 years ago

      Java is memory hungry but certainly not slow, especially compared to Go

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        4 years ago

        it is slow if you “have to” install the java JDK etc on a “clean” system just to run a java app. and we can argue about java vs go another time.