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For years, I have been using Whoogle for my self-hosted searches. It's been great, but recently there were some upstream changes that seem to have broken it.

I'm guessing that SearXng will soon follow (based on the assumption that they too are using the JS free results Google used to provide).

Does anyone have any self-hosted search options that still work? I hear Kagi is good for paid/ non-self hosted options, but just curious what you all are using.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Just installed SearXNG the other day and have been loving my little private instance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you using the Docker image or the stand alone? Pretty straight forward setup?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Docker and very straightforward. I would argue it's easier to set up than using their installation script.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Gave it a shot, it's been working pretty well so far. Only issue is that Firefox seems to want to use https://localhost/ instead of the IP address when I make it a default search engine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, to fix that I've had to employ the Redirector add-on. Slightly annoying but no big deal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Just a heads up that I found another way to get this working. Have a good weekend!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it lightweight?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Very.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Then I’ll try it too. I’ve been using distroot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Lemme know how you get on