seems like a very good alternative to searx and i think more people need to know about it

  • 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.

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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?

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      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.

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    I have been using random searXNG. I might as well give it a try.

    EDIT: This can really work well with something like privoxy!