I run it in a container on Kubernetes. Definitely recommend.
I still don't understand how Searx is able to operate for free. Don't the API calls cost money?
From what I've read, I believe it's a combination of donations. sponsors, volunteer hosting from like minded organizations.
There is also a list of publicly operated SearXNG instances at https://searx.space/. We host the one at https://search.freestater.org/, and there are plenty of other good ones.
Who says they are securely operated and don't store any data??
The devs at SearXNG have a bot that regularly scans the public instances for changes to the source code and delists them as a public instance if it's altered.
If you go to https://searx.space, they show the results of the scans for each instance.
The software is free and open source. You are encouraged to inspect the code yourself to make sure no data is collected!
Here is the source code:
For anyone wondering xn--gckvb8fzb.com is マリウス.com
Also: Maybe they should get a "normal" domain when you post english articles...
Does the url not resolve on certain browsers or something? I usually just copy/paste or use a firefox plugin to generate posts for lemmy/piefed/fediverse.
It resolves well but punnycode is disabled in some browsers or security enhanced profiles, so that you can easier detect punnycode domains that try to fake other domains.
Is metasearch really the best we can do? What about YaCy, or something else more like that?
Or how about YaCy. It's self-hostable & you can have your own web index and start your own web-crawler.
It's peer-to-peer too
Thanks for posting, both a great reminder to try setting this up on my unraid, and also to add the RSS feed of that site to Feeder.
BSD FTW
I used to self-host searxng for a while, but somehow the search results were always off and mixed with to much non-relevant results :/.
It's not about searxng itself... Rather how the most relevant info gets drown into AI slope and non-sense bullshit. The best blogposts/info are transmitted from people to people...
I'm kinda sad to admit that stupid AI "solved" this issue and had better results :/
You can self host that too ;)
OpenWebUI + Ollama + SearxNG. OpenWebUI can do llm web search using the engine of your choice (even self hosted SearxNG!). From there it's easy to set the default prompt to always give you the top (10, 20, whatever) raw results so you're not confined to ai results. It's not quite duck.ai slick but I think I can get there with some more tinkering.
I used to self-host searxng for a while, but somehow the search results were always off and mixed with to much non-relevant results :/.
I mean, getting non-relevant results happens with every search engine anymore.
The days of your search results being relevant, and what you want on the first page, are long dead thanks to SEO and other factors.
Yeah you're right ! However, ages ago, I still remember how you could go to page 20+ and still find some really interesting things !
Here, past page 2 it's just some random shit...
look at that domain name! respect
Usually its a sign of a scam. Looks like a ransomware c2 domain
The search engines that searxng interact with still track you. For this reason I will always use a public instance to mix up the tracking with everyone else using it.
Explain?
Using a public instance is more private than using a private selfhosted instance.
..a public Lemmy instance? How is that related to the the search engine?
044en17rl is right I meant a public seaxng instance.
a public SearXNG instance
Brave is a search engine?
That's news to me.
A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
Rules:
Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
No spam posting.
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
No trolling.
No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports.
Resources:
Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.
Questions? DM the mods!