LibreY vs SearXNG, which one do you suggest and why?
LibreY vs SearXNG, which one do you suggest and why?
Hello! Today I learned about the existence of LibreY, and the project seems very interesting. I was wondering, how does it compare with SearXNG? which one is easier to self host, and which one is lighter on resource usage? Which one gets rate-limited less? I'm particolary interested in opinions of people who used both
Thanks in advance!
If you learned today about LibreY, why don't you provide a link for others? š
I am sure you are not the only one, who didn't know about it
you're right, thanks for posting it yourself! I'm a newbie in the selfhosting world, so I thought that LibreY was "famous", but I was wrong!
Never assume anyone ever knows what you're talking about. It may seem like you're talking to people here who know more than you, but everyone has a different bucket of knowledge.
Self-hosting, by it's nature of using a lot of OSS, means there's a LOT of discovery here.
You're effectively addressing the entire world here - you never know who is here for the first time.
This is college level writing 101 stuff - the first time you mention something, you footnote a reference. Today that equivalent is a link.
I try to always link to things we're talking about, except for really big stuff (I'm not linking to Google.com, but maybe to a specific app or feature somewhere within Google).
I like SearXNG, I pipe it through a gluetun vpn tunnel to mix up my traffic with others. I turn off google and use a !g bang when really necessary. One of the killer features is setting up blacklists for content farms (see config file) which has helped my dev searches immensly, also bye fandom etc.
I love me a no-js, simple search engine š
Iāve only ever self-hosted SearxNG but i wanna try out LibreY. As for who gets rate-linited less, if you self host for yourself plus some friends iād be surprised if you have Google rate limiting your searches. I didnāt run a problem with mine anyways. I like the ātorrentsā feature of LibreY tho. I might self host and report back.
Self hosted: I don't know how I wpuld get others to use it aka more fingerprintable
Publzic: I haven't found an Ånstance that I felt was trustworthy, I am very open to recomendations
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LibreY's "Framework and JS free" approach is an anti-feature as far as I'm concerned. If you really don't like those for some reason then sure, but I personally prefer getting a nicer UX with a bit of JS.
I don't think it makes sense to self-host these services, unless you plan to open it up for everyone.
Why? The public instances are heavily overloaded, isn't a private instance faster?
Many use SearXNG to get less personalized search and tracking. If hundreds of users appear as one user for the search engine then both tracking and personalization of the results suffer.
Hm, I would think users could get good value out grouping search subject and selecting the best engines for their need, and receive a good spread of results from a single search.
..also, our upcoming swarm of personal AI's might benefit from such a selfhosted search service.
The main goal of these projects (SearxNG, Piped, Invidious, Nitter...) is to make it way harder to track users by having thousands of users make requests from one single place. If you host this service just for yourself... you'd get the same tracking as using the service itself.
Self-hosting just for yourself damages the community a bit because your data will not be used to confuse Google and the other guys.