Be Your Own Privacy-Respecting Google, Bing & Brave
… by running your own instance of the free and open-source federated metasearch engine SearXNG on OpenBSD!
Submitted 1 day ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to selfhosted@lemmy.world
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/be-your-own-privacy-respecting-google-bing-brave/
Be Your Own Privacy-Respecting Google, Bing & Brave
… by running your own instance of the free and open-source federated metasearch engine SearXNG on OpenBSD!
For anyone wondering xn–gckvb8fzb.com is マリウス.com
Dos it not resolve on certain browsers or something? I usually just copy/paste or use a firefox plugin to generate posts for lemmy/piefed/fediverse.
It resolves well but punnycode is disabled in some browsers or profiles for security enhanced profiles, so that you can easier detect punnycode domains that try to fake other domains.
The search engines that searxng interact with still track you. For this reason I will always use a public instance to mix up the tracking with everyone else using it.
Explain?
There is also a list of publicly operated SearXNG instances at https://searx.space/. We host the one at https://search.freestater.org/, and there are plenty of other good ones.
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Who says they are securely operated and don’t store any data??
who says that about any search engine? can you trust them? searXNG is usually run by random people who are less likely to use your data than a larger search company
If you’re using a shared IP, it doesn’t matter.
You are using a VPN or Tor, right?!?
I personally love yacy.
look at that domain name! respect
If you’re interested in this, the term you’re looking for is punycode
Usually its a sign of a scale. Looks like a ransomware c2 domain
I run it in a container on Kubernetes. Definitely recommend.
I still don’t understand how Searx is able to operate for free. Don’t the API calls cost money?
From what I’ve read, I believe it’s a combination of donations. sponsors, volunteer hosting from like minded organizations.
If I had to guess, they probably don’t use the APIs, inside using scrapping of some sort.
My understanding is it scrapes what it can’t meaningfully get out of an API. Public instances run into rate limiting, but private instances don’t really have that problem.
Brave is a search engine?
That’s news to me.
Brave have they’re own search engine
it’s no kagi, but its ok
I used to self-host searxng for a while, but somehow the search results where always off and mixed with to much non-relevant results :/.
It’s not about searxng itself… Rather how the most relevant info gets drown into AI slope and non-sense bullshit. The best blogposts/info are transmitted from people to people…
I’m kinda sad to admit that stupid AI “solved” this issue and had better results :/
You can self host that too ;)
OpenWebUI + Ollama + SearxNG. OpenWebUI can do llm web search using the engine of your choice (even self hosted SearxNG!). From there it’s easy to set the default prompt to always give you the top (10, 20, whatever) raw results so you’re not confined to ai results. It’s not quite duck.ai slick but I think I can get there with some more tinkering.
Is there a guide on how to do this on Linux + 16GB Radeon?
Ohoho? That’s interesting. I don’t have the horse power to selfhost an AI, but that’s good to know !
Thanks for the pointer !!!
I used to self-host searxng for a while, but somehow the search results were always off and mixed with to much non-relevant results :/.
I mean, getting non-relevant results happens with every search engine anymore.
The days of your search results being relevant, and on the first page, are long dead thanks to SEO and other factors.
Yeah you’re right ! However, ages ago, I still remember how you could go to page 20+ and still find some really interesting things !
Here, past page 2 it’s just some random shit…
Is metasearch really the best we can do? What about YaCy, or something else more like that?
It’s not federated tho?
Why do they mean when they call it that?
Thanks for posting, both a great reminder to try setting this up on my unraid, and also to add the RSS feed of that site to Feeder.
I just added it too, I had read a few articles of them already
ripcord@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
BSD FTW