lemmyreader to [email protected]English • 8 months agoWhy I Lost Faith in Kagid-shoot.netmessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1149arrow-down117file-textcross-posted to: technology
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•8 months agoI’m still trying to understand searxng, does it start with nothing and build up its index each time you search? Will your results be rubbish for a while?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•8 months agoIt just culminates results from a bunch of other engines
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•8 months agoIt’s basically a proxy for Google and other engines, think of it as a VPN for your searches.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•8 months agoI see that makes sense. So what does making it public/blending traffic do?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•8 months agoMakes it harder to fingerprint/differentiate traffic
I’m still trying to understand searxng, does it start with nothing and build up its index each time you search? Will your results be rubbish for a while?
It just culminates results from a bunch of other engines
It’s basically a proxy for Google and other engines, think of it as a VPN for your searches.
I see that makes sense. So what does making it public/blending traffic do?
Makes it harder to fingerprint/differentiate traffic