SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine

(github.com)

57 points | by theanonymousone 2 hours ago

14 comments

  • lucasrufkahr 0 minutes ago
    Yeah, I find that searx results are way more relevant to what I’m actually looking for than a single engine. There’s so much manipulation going on that if you don’t aggregate multiple engines, it’s near impossible to get what you want.
  • rcarmo 3 minutes ago
    Years of regular use here, has been great even before I started using it as an agent tool.
  • fishgoesblub 28 minutes ago
    I've been using SearXNG for a few years now, however I've been trying out Degoog as a SearXNG alternative since I've had issues with engines constantly failing or being slow since day 1 of using SearXNG, but Degoog has worse results with the same engines. It's a shame since I'm having to pick between slower but better results, or very fast but worse results.
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  • artooro 36 minutes ago
    It works well if you connect it the Brave Search API, but using it a scraper is fairly unreliable. Google stopped working a few days ago.
  • satvikpendem 1 hour ago
    TinySearch wraps this and works well for agents. It's better than the native SearXNG MCP because it optimizes the context before it even gets to the agent so as to not waste tokens.

    https://github.com/MarcellM01/TinySearch

    • drnick1 47 minutes ago
      SearXNG did not include a built-in MCP server, last time I checked.
    • ProofHouse 54 minutes ago
      Props
  • ManWith2Plans 1 hour ago
    I've been using this for some projects. It's exceptional and I recommend it highly.

    I actually included a recipe to deploy it to kubernetes in typekro, my TypeScript infrastructure-as-code project for kubernetes: https://typekro.run/api/searxng/

  • dexterdog 1 hour ago
    I've been self hosting this as my default engine across all of my searches for a few years now. I can't recommend it more highly.
    • viviansolide 1 hour ago
      Same experience
    • ProofHouse 55 minutes ago
      I’ll have to try, I’ve only recently learned Exa pricing is a bit crazy (especially on searches where you source 30-40 sources)I just used it be default and then was like oh damn when I got hit
  • arikrahman 59 minutes ago
    I have used SearXNG hosts like https://searx.be/ but stick with Brave search for the most part. Are there other good hosts people tend to use?
    • vimredo 41 minutes ago
      Personally, I self-host it myself. All the hosts I tried either errored often, or gave search results that were complete garbage.
  • another_twist 49 minutes ago
    Been a fan of searX for a while. Not sure if this is the same thing but there were plenty of hosted versions too.
  • salmonik 53 minutes ago
    I prefer 4get.
  • noobcoder 19 minutes ago
    how do i configure which specific search engines SearXNG pulls its results from? Can we extend it to onyl search Stack Overflow and GitHub
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