The best is you can just self host it too! Its simple and privacy respecting! The best part is you can search there on multiple sites at once! So you see results from every search engine you selected!
Standing my instance up was painless af. Docker blah blah, tweak my nginx, update dns, throw an autorenew LE cert in front of it, and that’s about the extent of it.
Sure ya could get more fancy but for my needs and single user env, that’s about all there is to it.
I use it sometimes just on my local pc, there i only need to start the container, and boom done.
Your title connected a dot for me… I’m a dummy, I’ve been pronouncing it “seer X” and “seer X-N-G” in my head all this time when it must be “search” and “searching”… 😔
That’s great! You can tell a friend, “Just go to searching!”, and they’ll know exactly what you mean.
For real, though, it seems like a nice tool.
The only con is that its super slow with many engines enabled…
Are you using a public instance? I selfhost mine and don’t notice it being very slow
How much space does this take up for you?
Next to none. It doesn’t save any data.
Mine is selfhosted as well. I enabled many engines (Google, Bing, DDG, Yahoo, Naver, Qwant, Brave, a few more) and a single search query takes about 8 to 10 seconds. I have pretty fast internet connection, it would be great if I can make it faster lol. I’m using DDG when I need a quick search due to that.
8 to 10s sounds glacial. Are you running this in a regular PC or an SBC?
I’m running it on my laptop, has skylake i5 ulv with 8 gigs of ddr3 and a tlc micron ssd with slackware linux installed (no docker, manual server config).
Yikes.
There’s also an open source alternative called Websurfx
Holy shit, it looks so much better, and it’s written in Rust.
Mobile is horrible though.
Is SearxNG not open source?
It is.
Oh. The thought comment implied that it wasn’t.
Welcome to tech subs on lemmy.world, glad to have you with us. 🙂 I have given up on trying to interact with people here who are trying to educate the world but are misunderstanding something themselves; it is like holding back the ocean. I figured you deserved an answer though.
The github page for websurfx says its a open source alternative to searx, and I never used searx before so I wasn’t aware of it being OSS but sorry for being your ocean of ignorance you can’t do anything about. Next time I won’t share anything to not offend.
Searx was a discontinued project, which it looks like spawned both SearXNG and websurfx as successors or alternatives. All three are open-source.
In all honesty, maybe I was kind of a jerk about it, and I apologize. You were just trying to offer help; sorry for being a dick about it.
I run my own instance (behind basic auth and some other stuff) and default my phone and personal boxes to it.
I fall back to DDG on work machines (no reason to even hypo risk exposing personal search hist to my corp IT folks) but otherwise I’ve little reason to use anything else.
Reverse phone search kind of sucks, but I can live with that.
None of the engines SXNG hits would meet my needs individually, but a quick skim of the well-ordered results (which by default note the source) generally gets me what i want in first page.
If not, it’s a cue that either my search terms are crap, or I need to narrow further.
Thanks for sharing. Is it a problem that you use is alone since someone supposedly could derive your identity from your search history? Often it is proposed to make a public but rate limited self hosted search.
Looks super handy! Thanks!
Who is hosting the one you shared?
I didn’t know about this, as I don’t know that team it is logical that I doubt about them, it looks cool so I’ll do a research, thanks 👍🏻
