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Searx instances
- troydavis 6y agoTo add a searx instance to your browser's search engines, visit the instance and follow the instructions on https://searx.xyz/about https://searx.xyz/about ("How to set as the default search engine?"). For example, to add the instance searx.xyz to Firefox, visit https://searx.xyz/ https://searx.xyz/ , click on the "..." icon to the right of the URL bar, and click "Add Search Engine." You can then choose searx while typing a query or can make it your default search engine (see about:preferences#search).
- canada_dry 6y agoOn my FF I'm getting this: Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to searx.xyz. The OCSP response contains out-of-date information. Error code: SEC_ERROR_OCSP_OLD_RESPONSE This instance worked however: https://searx.dojocasts.com/ https://searx.dojocasts.com/
- abc-xyz 6y agoHow do websites get the “Add Search Engine” button? For instance, I noticed I can do it with Gandi but not with Name or Namecheap.
- troydavis 6y agoThey publish a small “OpenSearch description file” XML document somewhere on the domain, then put the path to that file in an HTML meta tag (which enables browser auto-discovery). Here’s more: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch
- abc-xyz 6y agoVery interesting, thanks :)
- Lammy 6y agoAre there any good FOSS projects that would let me run my own crawler?
- devmunchies 6y agoisn't that what Searx is? https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/ https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/
- chromedev 6y agoNo, it is a metasearch engine but not a crawler.
- tobias2014 6y agoYaCy is the only one I'm aware of. See https://www.yacy.net/demonstration_tutorial_screenshot/ https://www.yacy.net/demonstration_tutorial_screenshot/
- surround 6y agoYaCy is a decentralized search engine
- lovelearning 6y agoTry Apache Nutch.
- Lammy 6y agoLooks like Common Crawl switched to this from their homegroan crawler. That's high praise!
- asdflke 6y agoI love the idea of searx. And ran a searx instance for a bit. Overall good idea. Slow search execution.
- henriquemaia 6y agoSearx is only as slow as your configuration allows it. You have to check the preferences, under engines, and deselect the offending slower engines. Some will take up to 10s to return any result. If you only choose faster engines, searx will also be faster.
- romanr 6y agoIs there any explanation what is this?
- Lammy 6y agoIt's a search engine that searches other search engines for you with a focus on privacy (e.g. provides direct links to results instead of Google-style tracking links, etc): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx
- henriquemaia 6y agoSearx is a metasearch engine [0]. "A metasearch engine (or search aggregator) is an online Information retrieval tool that uses the data of a web search engine to produce its own results." [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine
- dnpp123 6y agoI tried to use searx for a while, but gave up due to the lack of decent instance. Ended up using startpage.com - it might be a tad worst for privacy but a lot better for usability IMHO. If anyone is aware of a better alternative, I'd love to know about it.
- henriquemaia 6y agoI have been using my own instance for about 2 years now. I couldn't be happier. While researching for my master's, I never felt I was missing out anything substantial. Setting up your own instance is as simple as mirroring the Git repository. Mine is running in the default 8080 port. Here's more info on how to do it: https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/admin/installation.html https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/admin/installation.html
- cringepirate 6y agoI've setup my own instance on a VPS of searx (along with git, blog, private npm and a few other bits and pieces). It isn't particularly hard if you've setup an website on a Linux box before.
- dnpp123 6y agoIf you set up your own instance and are the only one to use it, what's the point of using searx and not grogle directly?
- cringepirate 6y agoBecause my goal is to move everything to self hosting whenever possible. Also there is nothing stopping anyone else from using it.
- dnpp123 6y agoRight, the way I see it, searx model is flawed. I want to host my personal instance. But doing so doesn't make any sense since if I'm alone using it. So I'm better off using Google directly, unless someone can search whatever he wants via a service I'm hosting :/
- haddr 6y agoDoesn’t it violate google search terms? If I setup it locally, would I have to solve captchas all the time afterwards?
- vstuart 6y agoI wrote a short quide on installing searX on a Linux system back in Feb. 2020 Non-Docker Local Installation of searX on Linux: https://persagen.com/2020/02/02/searx.html https://persagen.com/2020/02/02/searx.html I use it routinely as my default search interface to the web, defaulting rarely e.g. to Google for image seaches.