… by running your own instance of the free and open-source federated metasearch engine SearXNG on OpenBSD!
look at that domain name! respect
It’s not federated tho?
Why do they mean when they call it that?
There is also a list of publicly operated SearXNG instances at https://searx.space/. We host the one at https://search.freestater.org/, and there are plenty of other good ones.
Is metasearch really the best we can do? What about YaCy, or something else more like that?
I still don’t understand how Searx is able to operate for free. Don’t the API calls cost money?
If I had to guess, they probably don’t use the APIs, inside using scrapping of some sort.
From what I’ve read, I believe it’s a combination of donations. sponsors, volunteer hosting from like minded organizations.
Thanks for posting, both a great reminder to try setting this up on my unraid, and also to add the RSS feed of that site to Feeder.
I just added it too, I had read a few articles of them already
I run it in a container on Kubernetes. Definitely recommend.
