• brzrd
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    19 days ago

    Self-host SearXNG on your laptop/PC. Your only regret is that you’d wish you’d done this sooner. Both SearXNG and Docker have helpful setup pages that walk you through the process. https://docs.searxng.org/

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      19 days ago

      I’ve been hosting searx(ng) for like a decade or more. Rarely does it not find what I’m looking for.

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        18 days ago

        Can you give me a top level description? Is this really a self hosted search engine?? Like how dependant is this on other indexes somewhere?

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          18 days ago

          I should have been more accurate. It’s not a search engine per se. It’s a search aggregator. It doesn’t crawl the net, just uses other search engines

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            17 days ago

            That’s still pretty damn cool. Got dang it… another project for the pile…

            Thanks :)