TIL about SearXNG -- search like the old days where you get relevant results instead of a page half full of weird nonsense
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The best is you can just self host it too! Its simple and privacy respecting! The best part is you can search there on multiple sites at once! So you see results from every search engine you selected!
Standing my instance up was painless af. Docker blah blah, tweak my nginx, update dns, throw an autorenew LE cert in front of it, and that’s about the extent of it.
Sure ya could get more fancy but for my needs and single user env, that’s about all there is to it.
I use it sometimes just on my local pc, there i only need to start the container, and boom done.
The only con is that its super slow with many engines enabled..
Are you using a public instance? I selfhost mine and don't notice it being very slow
How much space does this take up for you?
Mine is selfhosted as well. I enabled many engines (Google, Bing, DDG, Yahoo, Naver, Qwant, Brave, a few more) and a single search query takes about 8 to 10 seconds. I have pretty fast internet connection, it would be great if I can make it faster lol. I'm using DDG when I need a quick search due to that.
There's also an open source alternative called Websurfx
I run my own instance (behind basic auth and some other stuff) and default my phone and personal boxes to it.
I fall back to DDG on work machines (no reason to even hypo risk exposing personal search hist to my corp IT folks) but otherwise I’ve little reason to use anything else.
Reverse phone search kind of sucks, but I can live with that.
None of the engines SXNG hits would meet my needs individually, but a quick skim of the well-ordered results (which by default note the source) generally gets me what i want in first page.
If not, it’s a cue that either my search terms are crap, or I need to narrow further.
Thanks for sharing. Is it a problem that you use is alone since someone supposedly could derive your identity from your search history? Often it is proposed to make a public but rate limited self hosted search.
Looks super handy! Thanks!
Who is hosting the one you shared?
I didn't know about this, as I don't know that team it is logical that I doubt about them, it looks cool so I'll do a research, thanks 👍🏻
Your title connected a dot for me... I'm a dummy, I've been pronouncing it "seer X" and "seer X-N-G" in my head all this time when it must be "search" and "searching"... 😔
That's great! You can tell a friend, "Just go to searching!", and they'll know exactly what you mean.
For real, though, it seems like a nice tool.