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I really like SearxNG for searching. It combines results from multiple search engines (that you define). And strips out advertisements. You can host your own SearxNG instance if you are in to self hosting, or you can use one of the many available public instances.
SearXNG has come a long way. I self-host, and I consistently get more reliable results than when I use Google, and you can set it to replace something like twitter.com with nitter.net or reddit.com with teddit.net, so you can still visit those sites automatically on mobile (not sure, but that might be a self-host only thing).
Thank you for this! Never heard of SearXNG until this thread. Sounds promising if you can use these replacement sites.
What are the privacy implications of you being the only person using an instance? I was under the impression that part of the privacy from SearXNG was by obfuscation because of many different people searching from the the same instance. I thought about self hosting it, but didn't want to share with the vps I pay for now.
I guess at the end of the day that I don't have many concerns for privacy. I am not searching for things that might get me on a watch list. Searching from my private instance is no more/less secure in terms of privacy than it would be if I did a Google search. The search endpoints (Google, Bing, DDG, etc) all know the IP that the search is coming from even if its passing through SearXNG first. So if I was doing something shady, I could easily be tracked down that way.
The main reason I run my own SearXNG is so I can strip ads and search multiple search providers from a single search.
And I think that is a totally reasonable purpose to host it! I just wanted to see if I understood this correctly. I like the concept but am not sure if I want to spend another weekend setting up another VPS.
If you are familiar with Docker, you can easily run it in your existing VPS. It doesn't use a lot of resources.
If you are not familiar with Docker, you should look in to it.
https://docker-curriculum.com/
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-beginners-guide-to-docker-how-to-create-your-first-docker-application-cc03de9b639f/