I have used SearXNG for a while, but I switched to LibreX after the search engine started glitching. Recently, though, LibreX has stopped returning any results. I am currently on Mojeek, but the results aren’t that great.

I have also tried Qwant, but I wasn’t too keen on it. Startpage will be impractical, as I use a VPN and this engine often blocks me because of it. I don’t want to use Brave Search for a number of reasons. MetaGer has too many important features behind its paywall. I’m not sure about DuckDuckGo, but I could use it if there was no other option.

Any suggestions, or am I being too picky?

  • @orizuru
    13•1 year ago

    What issues did you have with SearXNG?

    You could try to self host it, or even just run it on your local machine.

    Shameless plug on how to set it up locally, and how to set up custom filters (to block junk websites and redirect reddit to the old interface).

    • Hellfire103OPEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      It stopped returning results. I tried other instances: same problems. However, I think the issue may have been fixed.

      I am currently on an iPhone, and I’m not really in a position to self-host (although I did try to set up a FreedomBox the other day).

      • @orizuru
        7•1 year ago

        Ah fair enough.

        I started by having it on my laptop, and used it only there. Liked it so much that I’m renting a VPS around $5 a month to have it on all my devices.

        But to be fair, I’m also hosting other things on that VPS (SearXNG is very light), so it’s multi-purpose.

          • @chayleaf@lemmy.ml
            4•1 year ago

            I recommend Oracle Cloud Always Free - 4 Arm cores, 24GB RAM, 200GB storage. I’ve used it before they sanctioned Russia and it worked fine (but if hardware fails your data will stay but you will be at the bottom of the queue for replacement)

          • @orizuru
            2•1 year ago

            Went with linode since it was reasonably priced and popular. But might move if something better comes along.

            I have all the server setup done with ansible, so it’s super easy to reproduce everything in a new machine.

    • @beeb@lemm.ee
      1•1 year ago

      I used it for a while but could not find good results for any kind of advanced query. Qwant in comparison is slightly better but still worse than duckduckgo unfortunately. For really niche stuff I still need to revert to Google…

      • @orizuru
        3•1 year ago

        You can get both qwant, duckduckgo, and Google with SearXNG, unless the instance you used had a config to not have them as an option…

        That’s why I just prefer to use my own.