Brave bought their index. The other two did a PR announcement that they are gonna build one, you seen much else? Point very much still stands.
(some) alternative search engines use Bing because building an index is hard and the only project I know of doing this work from base is Mojeek: https://www.mojeek.com/
It's a three-pronged attack: Subliminal, liminal, and super-liminal
any way of slowing things down or wasting resources is a gain I guess
nepenthe
It's a Markov-chain-based text generator which could be difficult for people to implement on repos depending upon how they're hosting them. Regardless, any sensibly-built crawler will have rate limits. This means that although Nepenthe is an interesting thought exercise, it's only going to do anything to things knocked together by people who haven't thought about it, not the Big Big companies with the real resources who are likely having the biggest impact.
Having listened to this all when it was released I can highly recommend, as well as Evgeny's other podcast, the first in the series: https://choramedia.com/podcast/the-santiago-boys/
A third is supposed to be coming too
dis mf said females
Time to take it for a spin eh Tina?
We were all expecting that...
(and on and on and on...)
building a profile assisted by a bot
meeting people mediated by a bot
knowing what to say mediated by a bot
knowing when to pop the question mediated by a bot
learning how to raise your kids mediated by a bot
brave, new, world
guessing this is a money-from-google take, or something about some of the telemetry stuff firefox collects, or the fact they're not really focused on their browser and keep putting their efforts into AI products or other flights of fancy. To be fair they're all good takes; I mainly use Firefox, but they also have some deep issues.
Swisscows I don't believe has an index, Mojeek does.