I'm currently running it as a private instance, it is quite stable and fast, faster than my own private instance of Whoogle, although you don't get all the nifty features like instant results and related searches, etc.
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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This is the first time I heard about self hosted search engines. What is the benefit of using this over something like duck duck go?
You control your data.
AFAIK, it is an aggregator. Meaning: you can pick and choose between search engines (google, bing, ...).
If you make your instance public, you make it harder to get profiled, since your search behavior can't be analyzed as easily.
Last but not least: You don't have to trust any search engine company.
Had not heard of it, thanks for sharing
I've run Searxng for a while is there any reason to switch?
Thanks for sharing
Yeah i was between this and whoogle. Went with whoogle as its more actively maintained
Wait, why do we care that searx has 3rd party libraries? Is it leaking data about it's users to them?
I have been using random searXNG. I might as well give it a try.
EDIT: This can really work well with something like privoxy!
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