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I'm currently working on re-evaluating our search engine selection (reading privacy policies and all that good stuff), to see what to keep, remove, maybe add. I figured I might use some input from lemmy.

  • what do you use out of the ones we include? is anyone actually using search engines like qwant and metager?
  • do you add any search engine to librewolf?

if you're curious bout my notes on this -> https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/settings/-/issues/111

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

searx, but I do not self host. Currently lusing searx.be most of the time...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I am using a searx instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I personally use SearX as my primary search engine (one local instance, the default searx.be instance as a fallback). Sometimes, I use one of the following search engines as well, but generally, there is no need for them in my case (for some of them, I retrieve their results with my SearX search, anyway). I rarely get to the point where SearX cannot provide the required and satisfactory results and I have to search with some specific search engine. The search engines I currently have set up in all of my browsers on both desktops and mobile phones are:

  • SearX,
  • DuckDuckGo,
  • StartPage,
  • Qwant,
  • Metager and
  • some specific search shortcuts for a few websites (Wikipedia, Lemmy, ...).

I have one Whoogle instance set up too, just for testing purposes, though. And I love the idea of per website aggregated results provided by Gigablast, but Gigablast is way too slow to use regularly. Interesting idea, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe(to add): https://searx.neocities.org

Policies:

  • Redirects users directly to a random selection of any known running server after entering query.
  • Requires Javascript.
  • Excludes servers with user tracking and analytics or are proxied through Cloudflare.

I found this random Searx/SearXNG search engine redirector at https://searx.space under the About tab.

To use it, I save the search redirector as a bookmark at https://searx.neocities.org/#q=%s&category_general=on

I also turn on javascript on at searx.neocities.org because otherwise I have to type in my search query manually into a specific search instance.

However if your threat model requires it, you can also go to the no-javascript version of searx.neocities.org. You will not be automatically redirected to a random Searx instance when using no-JS version.

I type in a keyword in the url bar and then the service redirects me to a random Searx/SearXNG instance. For load balancing purposes, it seems great since no single server will be stressed significantly. The searches are spread across multiple instances.

Sometimes the redirected Searx/SearXNG instances output bad results(e.g. errors). In that case, just use the Searx redirector again to have new random Searx/SearXNG instance.