Get off Big Tech tools. Use these instead.

Below are my recommendations for genuinely good, helpful, non-toxic tools. We need alternatives to Big Tech platforms that continually show a shocking lack of respect for users, communities, even democratic society.

RootAbout is a search-by-image system. You supply a picture, and RootAbout will check if it looks similar to any indexed picture.
For pictures that match, RootAbout provides additional information about the picture and a link to where you can find more information.

A very clear explanation of the #uploadfilters & #linktax law proposals, by member of the Pirate Party & the EU parliament Julia Red, who "decipher the legalese"

A big THANK YOU to her and her colleagues for their work on this.
Thanks to them, this law has been sent back to the drawing board: https://twitter.com/Senficon/status/1014814460488413185

The Apache Tika™ toolkit detects and extracts metadata and text from over a thousand different file types (such as PPT, XLS, and PDF). All of these file types can be parsed through a single interface, making Tika useful for search engine indexing, content analysis, translation, and much more.

There is a plugin for French addresses : https://github.com/eig-2017/addok-fr

by Otis Gospodnetić [Otis is a Lucene, Solr, and Elasticsearch expert and co-author of "Lucene in Action" (1st and 2nd editions).  He is also the founder and CEO of Sematext. See full bio below.] “Solr or Elasticsearch?”...well, at least that is the common question I hear from Sematext’s consulting services clients and prospects.  Which one…

open-source-search-engine - A distributed open source search engine and spider written in C/C++ for Linux on Intel/AMD. From gigablast dot com, which has binaries for download. See the README.md file at the very bottom of this page for instructions.

searx - A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine

This post is a checklist for optimizing Elasticsearch’s configurations to deliver maximum performance, based on lessons we learned with log management.

Carrot2 is an Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine. It can automatically organize (cluster) search results into thematic categories.