YSK about SearXNG - an open metasearch engine

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨onehundredsixtynine@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨youshouldknow@lemmy.world⁩

https://docs.searxng.org/user/about.html

In addition to not tracking you and being fully open-source, there are 12 search categories in its settings with literally hundreds of available search engines.

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saylesss88@eviltoast.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
SearXNG is great but unfortunately Google frequently stops working as an engine in SearxNG because its anti-bot and rate‑limiting systems detect SearxNG traffic as automated scraping and either return CAPTCHAs, “access denied/suspended” messages, or HTTP 429 “too many requests” errors.

Their devs admit that there’s no simple solution because Google actively hunts and stops this traffic once a fix is implemented. The other search engines still work but I tend to get irrelevant nonsense as results. I have started using StartPage and am pretty happy with it so far as another option for a metasearchengine.

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- suzune@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I only get crap results when using the public SearXNG instances. It’s far better when I use my own container.
  
  I didn’t notice google results are gone. But I also don’t care. If they rely on your metadata to give you results, it’s obvious they are violating privacy.
  
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- mo_lave@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  Google frequently stops working as an engine
  
  Don’t threaten me with a good time.
  
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- onehundredsixtynine@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  The other search engines still work but I tend to get irrelevant nonsense as results
  
  Yahoo and Duckduckgo return good results for me on the instance I use.
  
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  - bunkyprewster@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    We are back to Yahoo?
    
    Full internet circle.
    
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  - Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    DDG has gone completely shitty for me recently.
    
    Such a weird thing to be seeing.
    
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  - Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I've switched the default search engine in Firefox to DDG finally, and I honestly haven't noticed a difference in results. This may not be the best praise though, since Google has sucked for a number of years now.
    
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- Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I wonder if routing it through FlareSolverr isn’t a solution.
  
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Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Tried a few public instances and it seems like there only way to not get rate limited by the big players is probably to self-host.

Trying to wrap my head around how to self host and still keep it anonymous. Anyone have experience hosting a “private” instance that’s web accessible? Are tokens sufficient to keep others off it? Cn you still get results routing through TOR?

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sga@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Sadly, currently the situation is very bad. I was a searxng user till maybe last month, and now you basically can not use it. google returns nothing, ddg rate limits shortly, brave does same, bing and yahoo return random gibberish. startpage, leta and many other frontends return errors.

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- CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Still working fine for me
  
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  - kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Works fine for me as well. Using public instances can be hit or miss. I just installed it locally, which I get is not possible for many, but it does work. Try lesser known instances.
    
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- theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Never had one issue with it.
  
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AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
YaCy

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