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searxng
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
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searxng
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Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?
https://search.brave.com
other things that came up in a search not mentioned in post yet (that I have heard of before):
mojeek or yacy - are these any good?
list of searx instances (I've used some of these a while ago but not recently so idk of their quality currently): https://searx.space/
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SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine
Yeah, searxng instance reliability problem goes deeper than simple uptime. The google response time function on public instance page [1] should be a good measurement of the search engine availability of one instance, but is broken for some time. Without real testing, people really cannot get the full view of the service status of a single instance.
[1] https://searx.space
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Your SearXNG JSON integration works on your own instance and silently breaks on everyone else's. Here's why.
Don't hardcode one public instance and assume it represents all of them. searx.space maintains a live, checked list of public instances and — usefully — tracks which ones actually support which output formats. Filter for JSON support there instead of guessing.
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Ask HN: General purpose search engine that will respect special characters?
exa.ai/search and perplexity, and most other search engines if you put the special characters in quotes. you could also find/make an instance of searx or search across aggregators. https://searx.space/
- Live List of SearXNG Instances
- Moving away from US cloud services
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Google.com search now refusing to search for FF esr 128 without JavaScript
Good that there are also non-EU instances of searx.
Here is an extended list:
https://searx.space/
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Show HN: Self-hosteable browser-based minimalist web-searching platform
Glad for your review!
About the source of the search results, both text and images, they're all from [SearXNG](https://github.com/searxng/searxng/).
> SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
SearXNG by itself offers a full-stack platform for you to run searches privately (you can find public instances at <https://searx.space/>, and easily host yourself [via docker](https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker)).
About how they scrape other search engines, it's really simple: HTTP calls and parsing of HTML (for most of them).
In MiniSearch, I don't need to save the results by myself. The scrape is done in real-time by SearXNG and passed to MiniSearch, which in turn runs a similarity search and filters out the textual results that don't seem that useful.
But I can say the real differential of MiniSearch is that it's mobile-first. Since the beginning, it was made to run on the browsers of Chrome/Safari/Firefox Mobile, and [Wllama](https://github.com/ngxson/wllama) together with [Web-LLM](https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm), along with LLMs of <1B parameters, allowed it!
If you're curious, here's the HN post I made about it a year ago:
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Creating a search engine for fun and because Google sucks
As someone who cares about their online searches actually being good, fast and private, I cannot recommend SearXNG more. https://github.com/searxng/searxng/
It's a metasearch engine that can query multiple search providers at once, including google, so you're not missing out on the good results you expect. Pick an instance at https://searx.space/ and tell your friends!
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Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns
That comment is simply ludicrous.
You display enough technical pro-efficiency on the topic but then you try to compare as equivalent the usage of SearX or DDG, ignoring that only one of them has the source code available for review. If you are affiliated to DDG, please disclose openly.
If you honestly are _THAT_ worried about IP tracking on the server level, then you would run SearX inside your local machine with Tor or any VPN of your choice. Simple.
Otherwise you'd just pick an online instance from https://searx.space/
But I wonder if we are having a non-affiliated conversation.
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The primary programming language of searx-instances is Python.
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