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Searx[0] is also worth checking out. It's fully free/libre and easy to host yourself. It uses other search engines, but so does at least DDG and Ecosia that ar
by hjek 8y ago
Searx[0] is also worth checking out. It's fully free/libre and easy to host yourself.
It uses other search engines, but so does at least DDG and Ecosia that are listed there.
[0]: https://searx.me/ https://searx.me/
- meruru 8y agoI switched from DDG to Searx. Both are pretty good, but Searx is actually FOSS while the only reason I was using DDG is because it's not Google. There are actually several Searx instances you can choose: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances
- BeetleB 8y agoYou can also just run your own instance on your PC.
- DrPhish 8y agoI've been using searx self-hosted for search exclusively[0] for a year or so now, and it's excellent on the general search side, but could definitely use some work on image search. I often get no/crazy/repeating results, and have to stay with mainline to prevent breakage. I'll maybe hit google directly once or twice a month, buy only ever for image search. [0]: I also have it externally facing for use outside of my LAN, with forced SSL and an http simple auth to prevent unauthorized access/0day exploits, and every browser I've tried works fine with simple auth in front of the default search. Even iPhone browsers are fine
- pmoriarty 8y agoYou host the client yourself, but it still queries searx's servers, doesn't it? I'm not sure how that's an improvement over DDG.
- hjek 8y agoNo, because there is no such thing as servers belonging to Searx. Whoever wants to serve a Searx instance does so. It queries Google and Wikipedia and the like. It's a metasearch engine, so doesn't crawl the internet on its own. It's an improvement over DDG in that it's free software: You can't host DDG yourself.