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Searx – a privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine

70 points by Sami_Lehtinen 9y ago

teddet 9y ago
The source code of the project is available here: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx https://github.com/asciimoo/searx
jaytaylor 9y ago
Not sure why, but the comment linking to the source code is dead [0]. The source code of the project is available here: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx https://github.com/asciimoo/searx [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14579854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14579854
- phpnode 9y ago
  Sometimes legitimate accounts trip a spam filter and get shadow banned, if you go directly to the comment's page (click the time link) there's a `vouch` link you can click to vouch for that person and restore their account.
jcalabro 9y ago
I used this as my primary search engine for a little over 6 months, eventually I switched off because of a bug. I would make a search and it would return no results, then I would re-run the search and it would work. Other than that, I had no major complaints about it.
- ycomment 9y ago
  What sort of advanced search capabilities/tips and tricks do you have?
- tscs37 9y ago
  I've encountered the same bug which eventually led me to also abandon the platform. Especially when results only consisted of bing or yahoo results on the first try. I'm not quite sure if this has been fixed by now.
- dalf 9y ago
  There is a global timeout. If for some reason, all engines doesn't response before the global timeout, there is no result. Usually it's work on the second try because the HTTPS connection are already established (which may be not the case on the first try). One idea to avoid the annoying refresh : if there is no result before the global timeout, searx could wait longer.
  - jcalabro 9y ago
    Appreciate you raising the issue! I will be sure to follow it.
    - jcalabro 9y ago
      Also, maybe calling it a bug was a little unfair; if it is a timeout, it seems to be working as expected. We'll see. Either way, I really liked it while I was using it, hopefully it gets resolved! Good work SearX contributors! :)
- dalf 9y ago
  https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/issues/948 https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/issues/948
dandelion_lover 9y ago
See also: http://yacy.net http://yacy.net, free distributed search engine.
Buetol 9y ago
I'm using the trouvons.org instance and it's working really well, especially enabling reddit search so you can get very random but interresting answers about the subject. I just miss the !g shortcut of ddg so I can always fallback to google.
- FiveDegrees 9y ago
  !g still works in ddg though.
aszantu 9y ago
I'm missing the shopping tab
nthcolumn 9y ago
dear god I used files and typed 'mpg' AND WTF??? got top three pageranks of Lolita Rape, Gang Rape and Dog Fuckers - is this why they need to respect privacy??? Abort! Abort! ...okay 15 minutes later edit: for checking the preferences - I disabled Bing engine and something a less OMFGWTF came up.

70 points by Sami_Lehtinen 9y ago

The source code of the project is available here: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

Not sure why, but the comment linking to the source code is dead [0]. The source code of the project is available here: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx https://github.com/asciimoo/searx [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14579854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14579854

phpnode 9y ago
Sometimes legitimate accounts trip a spam filter and get shadow banned, if you go directly to the comment's page (click the time link) there's a `vouch` link you can click to vouch for that person and restore their account.

jcalabro 9y ago

I used this as my primary search engine for a little over 6 months, eventually I switched off because of a bug. I would make a search and it would return no results, then I would re-run the search and it would work. Other than that, I had no major complaints about it.

ycomment 9y ago
What sort of advanced search capabilities/tips and tricks do you have?
tscs37 9y ago
I've encountered the same bug which eventually led me to also abandon the platform. Especially when results only consisted of bing or yahoo results on the first try. I'm not quite sure if this has been fixed by now.
dalf 9y ago
There is a global timeout. If for some reason, all engines doesn't response before the global timeout, there is no result. Usually it's work on the second try because the HTTPS connection are already established (which may be not the case on the first try). One idea to avoid the annoying refresh : if there is no result before the global timeout, searx could wait longer.
- jcalabro 9y ago
  Appreciate you raising the issue! I will be sure to follow it.
  - jcalabro 9y ago
    Also, maybe calling it a bug was a little unfair; if it is a timeout, it seems to be working as expected. We'll see. Either way, I really liked it while I was using it, hopefully it gets resolved! Good work SearX contributors! :)
dalf 9y ago
https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/issues/948 https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/issues/948

dandelion_lover 9y ago

See also: http://yacy.net http://yacy.net, free distributed search engine.

Buetol 9y ago

I'm using the trouvons.org instance and it's working really well, especially enabling reddit search so you can get very random but interresting answers about the subject. I just miss the !g shortcut of ddg so I can always fallback to google.

FiveDegrees 9y ago
!g still works in ddg though.

aszantu 9y ago

I'm missing the shopping tab

nthcolumn 9y ago

dear god I used files and typed 'mpg' AND WTF??? got top three pageranks of Lolita Rape, Gang Rape and Dog Fuckers - is this why they need to respect privacy??? Abort! Abort! ...okay 15 minutes later edit: for checking the preferences - I disabled Bing engine and something a less OMFGWTF came up.