How many of you have tried using SearXNG? It’s a meta search engine that pull data from a number of sources before ranking and displaying them. I really like the cached feature that tries to load the internet archive copy of the page.

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    1 year ago

    I got a private instance going a few months ago and I really like it. It’s just a little slow cause it runs on a Pi (my only 24/7 device at the moment). The hostname rewrite feature is cool and I’ll have to check out the archive cache feature.

    I also use a public instance at work and it’s way more effective than the bloated corporate search engines. Super handy for engine or language specific searches too.

  • Spun up the container about a week ago. Made it my default search in Firefox. So far I’ve been happy with the quality of the results although I will admit there is a perceptible lag when submitting searches, compared to google/bing/etc… I imagine that’s mostly to do with the fact that it’s waiting on multiple search engines to fill my request.

    I do like it so far. I figure with some tuning I could get the response time down.