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  • Show HN: Self-hosteable browser-based minimalist web-searching platform
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2024
    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:

  • Creating a search engine for fun and because Google sucks
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2024
    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!

  • Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Aug 2024
    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.

  • Perplexica: Open-Source Perplexity Alternative
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 May 2024
    Same here, here is a list of public instances[1]. Docs link [2].

    [1] https://searx.space/

    [2] https://docs.searxng.org/

  • What Happened to DuckDuckGo?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 May 2024
  • YaCy, a distributed Web Search Engine, based on a peer-to-peer network
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Mar 2024
  • What the Google overlords don't want you to see
    4 projects | /r/tumblr | 10 Dec 2023
    I still recommend a Searx instance over google. Independently run search engines using an open-source software that aggregate searches over multiple engines, including Google, Bing, Yahoo, Wikipedia, DDG, Ecosia, and many many more.
  • newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request
    3 projects | /r/Android | 11 Jul 2023
    This kind of thing is why I use searx
  • how safe is duckduckgo?
    4 projects | /r/privacy | 2 Jul 2023
    I recommend hopping on public SearxNG instances. https://searx.space/
  • Searx.be was shut down by ISP
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jun 2023
    This was my default search in Safari, the "new tab opens with" way.

    Now it shows "Cloud provider terminated all my servers, service is down for the moment. Working on it. Sorry. Please use other instances on https://searx.space"

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