SearXNG is great, with a few caveats: Running it on a machine that also does NAT for many other machines helps to prevent getting blocked by upstream search en

SearXNG is great, with a few caveats: Running it on a machine that also does NAT for many other machines helps to prevent getting blocked by upstream search engines like DuckDuckGo. It'd be good if access to certain upstream search engines could be sent through, say, a proxy set up elsewhere to prevent this very, very common problem, if you can't run it from an IP used for other things. I'd like to figure out how to have a mode where my search is 100% literal - where every word I type must be in the search results exactly as I type them. Perhaps that's the equivalent of putting a "+" in front of each word, and putting each word in quotes? It's annoying that my words are constantly getting changed for me because there aren't many results, which I expressly don't want. Like mentioned elsewhere, I want to be able to explicitly exclude certain domains. I get that SearXNG wants to be stateless, but I could either configure a separate URL for it or simply configure it for all searches. For instance, if I search for a PDF manual for something, I never, ever, ever want to see anything from "manualslib.com" and sites like it. Other than these things which'd be nice to address, I'd say running SearXNG and encouraging people to use it instead of Google has worked quite well :)