My latest Google search replacement recently made a decision that basically forces me to turn off ad block in order to click results. I was wondering if there was any self hosted solution that is fairly easy to deploy in TrueNAS scale or if it is even worth doing. Bonus points if it’s federated somehow. I’ll deal with bad results if it needs time to grow as a project.
I also want to add that what little self hosting I’ve done so far has felt like cutting out a festering cancer and it feels so good to be in control of my online life again. Thanks so much for the guidance since the Rexxit. Finding out that you could easily self host a Reddit replacement with other people was what got me going to into this to begin with.
Like others, I use searxng.
But you can also try whoogle and librex
I am using searxng
You can customize a lot and the results are good imo 🌞
Now i need to figure how I need to make it public/accesible so I can use it when I’m out and about.
Easiest way if it’s only for yourself is using tailscale
Set up a VPN. Safest / best way to do it
Whoogle is great. https://hub.docker.com/r/benbusby/whoogle-search
Search engines take a LOT of work to run, which is why there’s so few of them. You can self-host a search engine that indexes one site, but not one that indexes the entire internet lol. The closest you’ll find is SearxNG as others mentioned. It’s not a search engine itself though; it just uses other search engines.
Yacy is pretty great.
Yes, Yacy is what you want OP (https://yacy.net). It’s rather pathetic that people are still trying to be a parasite, but wanting to do so anonymously. Roll up your sleaves and commit your resources to making community search engines work. You have the control.
Instead of a ‘normal’ search engine, you could take a look at a Gpt like replacement, maybe there is one that also protects you your privacy, and it can certainly be used to find what normal search engines could find
Huh…so there’s currently no open source search engine out there? I see a few crawlers, and some UIs the crawlers can use but no one project consolidating the two.