if you looking for a good alternative for google search, try "SearXNG"
if you looking for a good alternative for google search, try "SearXNG"
actually awesome and fast search engine (depending on which instance you use) with no trashy AI and ADs results also great for privacy, if you don't know which instance to use go to https://searx.space/ and choose an instance closest to you
Aren't all search queries available to whoever hosts an instance? In my eyes this is much worse to privacy and a much bigger risk unless you really know who is behind your chosen instance. I would trust some a company a bit more with safeguarding this information so it does not leak to some random guy.
I mean it's often better than nothing, but it is a meta search that still often uses Google or Bing to gather results. IMHO, cut off the need for that data on the whole and use an option like Mojeek
Been rocking self-hosted Searxng for the last 3 weeks now as my default search engine; it's as good or better than DDG and certainly better than Google. Results I need are usually within the first three items, no extraneous shit.
I thought I'd just try it out, but it's staying. The ability to tune the background engines is awesome. My search history is private (though I wasn't that worried about DDG, there was no way in fuck I was using Kagi) since it's running it's searches via a VPN and returning me results locally.
I stopped using it not because of the results but because you couldn't swipe back without it sending you to the base website.
On DuckDuckGo (and google n others) a search is shown in the URL like looking for frog:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=frog&t=fpas&ia=webHowever in SearXNG it just shows
https://searxng.world/search
Which I don't have an issue with, however when you click on a link and then go back to the search results it would have no idea what you searched for as it's not in the URL and show an error.
That aside, the UI is great. icons don't swap around on you like Google or have annoying popups about 'privacy' like DDG. On the topic of search results, it was good enough for me. Not great but then again there aren't any good search engines right now.
I'd use it more often if its public instances didn't get rate-limited so often
Whoogle is a good option for self hosting as well
It's ok at best, when it works. When it runs out of API hits for the day at noon, you need to use something like https://searx.neocities.org/ and retype your search multiple times until you manage to hit an instance that can actually perform a search.
Also, no suggestions.
Did anyone else not know Lycos was still around? Lycos is still around. Seems not that bad. No AI stuff.
Can someone explain the meaning of the name and the people building this project please?
You're trusting how information is filtered and funneled to you with a search tool, but a change to take lightly. Google sucks, but they have a lot to lose, a lot of eyes on them and I know generally their base motivations.
I checked it out, but most of the public instances I looked at use google + bing. I think I only came across one that used Mojeek, but they deranked it so google results were still at the top.
Yeah you can customize them -- if you never clear your cookies.
Pretty much need to self-host it to customize it.
The best thing is to self host it, to have better uptimes and custom default settings
4get.ca has been great for me.
have been using it for a while on my mobile and so far i like it better than ddg or startpage
I have it running on my server, and honestly... I almost love it more than kagi. Still evaluating both, to make a decision by the end of the year.
Using it on my own server since... Ages ☺️ Can only recommend it. Even though google's results are often... Weird up to completely unhelpful.
I use ononoki for almost a half year without effort.
How do I add SearXNG to be the default on my Chrome or Chromium? I still need to use Chrome on a computer of mine.
Kagi works great for me. 100% worth it, best engine I've tried.
Edit: If you are curious about their privacy policy https://kagi.com/privacy.
