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Recently I have been using the free and open source Searx more and more (admittedly mostly using the !searx shortcut from DDG). Results seem better than DDG som
by kasbah 9y ago
Recently I have been using the free and open source Searx more and more (admittedly mostly using the !searx shortcut from DDG). Results seem better than DDG sometimes. Would be interesting to try and host my own instance or write something that picks a random public instance.
https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/ https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/
- hdhzy 9y agoWow, very cool project! Thanks for sharing.
- chiefalchemist 9y agoi saw there's an Installation page but do you know of an easy step by step tutorial for setting this up? Perhaps with a low cost recommended host, etc.?
- OJFord 9y agoThere's a Dockerfile, just spin that up. (Or, if needed, find a brief step-by-step on running a docker container, because that's all there is to getting searx running.)
- KGIII 9y agoAlong that same line is YaCy. https://yacy.net/en/index.html https://yacy.net/en/index.html
- kasbah 9y agoI think YaCy didn't give me very good results last I tried it. It's not a fair comparison, as it has been a few years for sure, but if I had to guess then I would say that Searx, being just a search engine aggregator (it doesn't do crawling), gives better results.
- KGIII 9y agoI tried it last about six months ago. It was a marked improvement over what it was a couple of years prior. I like that it is decentralized and stores no private data. To me, the decentralized part is important. But, I'm not sure I'd say it's ready for prime time. With Searx, you still need the regular search engines. I suspect that your traffic can still be identified, say through timing requests or from piecing together behavioral data. I haven't really dug that deep to investigate the risks. I will give it a shot tomorrow, just to try it out. I've seen it in passing but you're the first person I've seen, in the wild, that uses it. I'll give it a test run.