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SearXNG display prices in results? (lemmy.nz)
submitted 3 weeks ago by terraborra@lemmy.nz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Google pushed their Ai Overview onto my country last night and that finally gave me the push to change search engines.

One thing I did find useful was having product prices displayed in the search result headers but this doesn’t appear to be enabled in any other engine. I used it to quickly scan between retailers as not everything shows up in pricespy or priceme.

I deployed a searxng instance this morning and have heard that you can use json to modify result presentation. Does anyone know if it’s possible to use that to display prices?

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[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 12 points 3 weeks ago

I'm fairly sure that the price information shown on a Google Search result page is advertising that comes from a different source than the results do.

As far as I know, you could write a plugin for SearXNG to query suppliers and format the output as required.

I think that Google Shopping might be queried in the same way, but I've never looked into it deeply.

[-] terraborra@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 weeks ago

Ahh that also explains why it seems to be a google only thing. Thank you though, knowing that it’s through the shopping api will hopefully help me find a solution (if it exists).

[-] lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I haven't used google for ages, so didn't know this was a thing, but it sounds like a handy indicator if it could be added to searxng.

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