tribler VS searxng

Sorry for the bad news: it's not going to work.

Can you filter the 95% spam and dead torrents?

It's very very hard what you are trying to do. Takes lots of effort to be somewhat usable. It's duplicating Google, withou their monopoly. A few have tried. My university lab has been building a torrent search engine for 17 years and 3 months. Fully decentralised, no servers, no browser, now called Web3. Burning 7 million Euro in tax payer money, building a distributed ledger in Sep 2007. So expect a long road ahead. (our engine: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki)

I think there was a tor torrent client, https://www.tribler.org/

I read this as mentioned by the developer, in my previous post.

Thank you very much for your ideas and suggestions! The second suggestion is something we have also been thinking about but critically depends on the performance of E2E encryption. This also already goes back to 2013, see [this issue](https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/3) for example.

https://www.tribler.org/ Tribler. It uses Tor-like networking.

Yes, this is exactly what we are working on for 16 years now. Longest running torrent, trust and Tor-fork project: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki

Its as hard as making a decentralised Google and decentralised YouTube at the same time. Over 75 master students and PhDs put their coding efforts in it at Delft University.

I'd recommend Tribler for those worried about legal trouble.

Tribler: Search and download torrents with less worries or censorship\ (30 comments)

SearxNG The app I use more than any other. Privacy respecting metasearch.

Whoogle and Searx are similar Python-written search instances that display any kind of Images on search which is not being detected by CleanBrowsing, OpenDNS DNS-level filters.

You should donate this to Searx/ng, which is an open source meta search engine designed to search many things in the same time.

https://github.com/searxng/searxng

Could you share more about this please?

Some quick reading of SearxNG's docs* and testing out an instance* shows some very good search results.

> If you run your own instance, it's better to share that instance with friends or family so they can dilute your search queries with theirs, and it makes it much harder for your instance to be tracked the same as they'd track you. Or, you can use a public instance which is better for privacy, but worse for security and customizability.

Is there no way to clear all state after each query, or every 24 hours, etc? I'd wonder if sharing with family just means you'd build a closer data association with them. Or, what kind of things do you find important to customise (and why?) that aren't configured by public SearxNG instances?

* https://docs.searxng.org/

I am really sorry for not providing alternatives in the main post as the list can get quite long and might as well deviate from the main purpose of the post. 'Awesome lists' over on GitHub are a good place to start with if you are looking for alternatives for almost everything. Some services that are I use are: - Search engine: SearXNG, it is basically an open-source meta-search engine(it is capable of using search indices by Google, Bing and several other search engines together) hosted by many individuals and organizations. I use the PaulGO instance of it because it is fast and reliable almost all the time.

Setup a SearXNG instance. https://github.com/searxng/searxng

Can I just recommend searx? You choose which search engines (including google), you want results from and it gets them from there. You can even set it up to just get results from google and nowhere else, and it will be a privacy-friendly google. Should you want to, you can even host it yourself. Otherwise, just use an existing instance, like searx.be, which seems to be the most popular one.