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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by fccview@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Hey,

Some of you may know me for Jotty and Cr*nmaster, been quiet with my head down lately improving my apps and trying to build a searxng alternative for myself.

Whilst I have used searxng for about a year now, I have had quite a few personal gripes with it (mostly stuff I personally would prefer worked differently) so in the past few weeks I have decided to make my take on it and ran it happily locally. Since publishing the beta to my discord server I ended up building a fairly extensive tool.

Degoog is actually pretty minimal, there's no much to it aside from a very comprehensive plugin/extension system. The idea being users can create their own engines, themes and plugins that hook into the core application and do.. pretty much anything, from adding stuff to the result page (e.g. speedtests, tmdb information, ip retrieval, rss feeds embedded on the home page) to full on OIDC systems.

This is still very much in beta and I figured the best way to get it out of beta would be to publish it to a wider audience (currently some users in our discord server have been testing it fairly successfully and i've been on top of bug fixing).

Repo: https://github.com/fccview/degoog

Official extensions: https://github.com/fccview/fccview-degoog-extensions

Docs: https://fccview.github.io/degoog

You can install custom plugins/extensions. You can make your own repo and add it to the store page in the settings, or you can just have your own plugins locally for yourself.

Let me know what you think, and feel free to ask any questions and feel free to join our discord (link in releases page on any of my apps) for a more direct chat about things <3

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[-] BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That looks amazing!

I don't want to bother you about that or anything, but Microsoft (who owns GitHub) is a company that's actively hostile towards open source devs and is actively using GitHub to scrape insane amounts of training data for their own AI models without regard for consent.

Have you considered moving to an alternative platform? Codeberg for example is quite good, all their code is open source and self hostable and the interface is quite easy to understand for someone, who is used to GitHub. It's also managed by a nonprofit and it's pretty easy to transfer you repo from GitHub to there.

[-] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Thought this said dogdog when I scrolled by earlier today lololol

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

I would totally use a search engine called dogdog

[-] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

DogDogStarp!

[-] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Well, your app made it to xda Congrats!

[-] fccview@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Madness, wasn't expected to get any coverage for it until it was out of beta 😆

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I have used searxng for about a year now, I have had quite a few personal gripes

What gripes have you had? Curious. Maybe something I've overlooked.

[-] ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I found it oddly good at finding hidden pages containing the exact terms I was looking for but horrible at more general stuff

[-] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

First of all, thanks a ton.

I have been using SearxNG for more than year, running it as docker container on my Homelab. It's connected to internet via Mullvad VPN.

Lately, I have see both Google and Bing search engines are either not working or returning complete garbage results.

My firewall setup doesn't allow any incoming connection to homelab, except from LAN. So, bot accessing my SearxNG instance might not be the issue.

With degoog installed in the same fashion (docker + VPN), google engine seems to be unblocked for me (so far).

Not sure why degoog is not getting rate limited like SearxNG on the same system and same VPN. But, at least I'm happy :)

[-] fccview@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Aw thank you so much for giving it a try and leaving such a nice feedback ♥️ I am searching in a slightly different way than searxng, can't promise it'll work forever but for now it seems to be doing the trick ♥️ I have some more improvements to the search system coming with the next release as Bing does get blocked quite often for me.

P.s. have you been using any extensions? If so what's your fave so far? Haha

[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
VPN Virtual Private Network
nginx Popular HTTP server

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[-] stepan@lemmy.cafe 0 points 3 months ago

My biggest issue with searxng is that google gets rejected all the time. But that's because the instance gets rate limited, no? Do you deal with that more effectively somehow? Is it even possible?

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Echoing what @thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com said, I selfhost it and I only have one user...me.

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