Seeks
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| Developer(s) | Emmanuel Benazera, Mehdi Abaakouk, Pablo Joubert, Fabien Dupont |
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| Preview release | 0.4.1
/ April 3, 2012 |
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| Written in | OS X |
| Type | Collaborative search engine |
| License | AGPL-3.0-or-later |
| Website | beniz |
Seeks is a
Open World Forum Innovation Awards.[3] The Seeks source code has not been updated since April 28, 2014[4] and no Seeks nodes have been usable since February 6, 2016.[5]
User control
Seeks aims to give the control of the ranking of results to the users, as search algorithms are often less accurate than humans. It relies on a distributed collaborative filter[6] to let users personalize and share their preferred results on a search. Also, because of the openness of the source code, users can verify and modify the collaborative filter to fit its needs.
Forms
Currently Seeks can be used in three main forms:
- Public meta search engine – These are various individuals or entities that have created publicly accessible instances of the Seeks source code.[7] This is the easiest way to begin using Seeks, as it operates in a similar manner to any other search engine.
- Web proxy – Based on the popular Privoxy open source code, this allows setting up Seeks to operate as a web proxy which intercepts network requests for search queries and returns Seeks-based results.
- Web application – This allows setting up an instance of the web search interface on a local system, and more customizing than available when using a public node.
Features
- Results are automatically re-ranked based on user behavior.
- Results are automatically re-ranked based on behavior by similar users.
- The software can be run in a distributed, pseudonymously.[8]
- As free and open source software, the source code and binaries are freely available and can be used for commercial and personal uses with many freedoms.
- It uses various commercial engines, public data sources or privately set search engines to generate its index and in this way serves as a meta-search engine while at the same time reranking results to optimize based on user behavior.
See also
- YaCy – an open source search engine which includes its own crawler and stores search index in a distributed manner
- Collaborative search engine – a type of search engine which actively or passively accounts for user behavior in ranking results
- OpenSearch – a standard protocol for publishing search results in a consumable format
References
- ^ "Seeking help with Seeks". p2pnet.net. August 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-09-04.
- ^ Benazera, Emmanuel (2006-10-10). "Seeks Project Manifesto". Seeks Project.
- ^ "OpenWordForum Innovation Awards". Archived from the original on 2011-08-22.
- ^ "Source code not updated". GitHub.
- ^ "All Seeks nodes are not usable". GitHub.
- ^ "Self-Organizing Distributed Collaborative Filtering" (PDF).
- ^ "List of Web Seeks nodes". 2012-05-02.
- ^ What's my ID on the network, can other users identify me? - Seeks FAQ
External links
- Seeks project website on GitHub.