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Looking at their repos, it seems it’s mostly metasearch. Only crawler I see is specifically for news. I’d be curious to hear if anyone self hosted this and sea
by 3np 6y ago
Looking at their repos, it seems it’s mostly metasearch. Only crawler I see is specifically for news.
I’d be curious to hear if anyone self hosted this and searx and how they compare.
- Fnoord 6y agoI self-host SearX, and so can you. Its fairly easy with Docker [1]. However via self-hosting you don't get the anonymity benefits from their upstream (Bing, Yandex, whatever else you enable) which you do get via a public SearX. But with a public SearX instance you don't get the privacy benefits from that instance (ie. all searches can be traced to you). So I end up using both public and self-hosted SearX, DDG, and Google as last resort. [1] https://github.com/searx/searx-docker https://github.com/searx/searx-docker
- 3np 6y agoYeah, it's already on my bucket list, asking because Qwant looks self-hostable as well :) Still some privacy benefits in not having physical location tied to searches, and an instance can be shared with friends and family.