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People... it clearly says that it's a Beta. Give it time!
I'm glad to see that there are alternatives emerging outside of corporate hands.
Interesting, no trackers or analytics on the Search or Results pages, and in 'Discussions' on the Results page it shows some results from Lemmy.
Seems to be lacking, I tried searching for "defcon 28 talks" since it has a hacker news filter and it didn't return anything relevant when compared to my SearXNG search that came back with much better results. I tried it without the hacker news filter and that just made the results worse.
I've tried a couple of SearXNG public instances, but 8 searches out of 10 they returned no results because of API limit. How do you guys use it?
P.s. How can I quote another person, for example @Jamie@jamie.moe?
I run my own personal instance on a server, nobody else is really using it.
I also host it (locally). Added an Invidious instance as well 🤓
Are you using your account for the Google API? If yes, doesn't it mine the privacy point of SearXNG?
No, it's just doing whatever it does by default for that. Being the only user does take away an element of anonymity, but I don't think it's to an unacceptable level. Sure, they might have a good idea of what I like to search, but they don't know what links I'm clicking on or interacting with, and I'm not seeing any ads from the searches. So I'm a totally useless data point in that regard.
Got it, thanks!
Here I am again! Sorry, but I'm new to SearXNG and I don't know it very well, so I need some more info from who knows about it. Instead of hosting your own instance where you tell Google what you search (even if it doesn't know what you click and doesn't track you), wouldn't it better (and easier) to use Google Container that isolate all the searches that you do on Google without even the need to login? All the link you click are opened on different (or no) containers so there is no tracking. So: what are the advantages of using a personal SearXNG instance instead of the FireFox Google container addon? Thanks!
Pss.. you can use mine: search.estebiu.com It's pretty fast
Thanks a lot, I will!
Literally the first search I did gave me back zero results. Not a good look...
I like some of the ideas they have going, but I'll be sticking to my searxng instance.
Cool idea. But the explore option is not ready yet
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