 Francophone version of Sepia Search (March 2021) | |
Type of site | Search engine |
|---|---|
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Founded | September 2020 |
| Headquarters | , France |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Owner | Framasoft |
| URL | sepiasearch |
| Advertising | No ads |
| Registration | Optional (required to upload) |
| Launched | September 2020 |
| Current status | Active |
Sepia Search is a video search engine for PeerTube. [1] It is developed by the French non-profit organisation Framasoft.
Sepia Search was launched in September 2020, by the Framasoft association, to serve as a single portal to search for video on hundreds of PeerTube instances.
However, according to the association, this portal is not intended to be exhaustive or to centralise research on all bodies:
Notre objectif, avec Sepia Search, n’est pas de présenter l’intégralité de ces contenus. Nous voulons simplement vous montrer l’espace d’autonomie qu’ouvre PeerTube, en respectant les valeurs de transparence, d’ouverture et de liberté que nous défendons depuis plus de 16 ans. [2]
The instance search capacity of the Sepia Search portal has grown from around 500 PeerTube instances in September 2020 to almost 800 instances listed in March 2021.
For any keyword, the service returns results found on all the federated instances.
For a more specific query, it is possible to apply a sorting according to: 1) the date of publication, 2) the video duration or 3) by filtering contents considered sensitive. [3]
The look and feel of this portal is therefore deliberately similar to that of other video platforms for the general public such as Dailymotion, YouTube or Youku.
This service is based on two complementary elements:
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