actually awesome and fast search engine (depending on which instance you use) with no trashy AI and ADs results also great for privacy, if you don’t know which instance to use go to https://searx.space/ and choose an instance closest to you

  • Corgana@startrek.website
    1·
    23 days ago

    How does it work self hosting? Is it querying other search engines or just maintaining a database on your server?

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      23 days ago

      Its all calls to other engines, that you can choose and tune. So its making those calls and filtering out shit like AI results, and then ranking it to return back to you. Seems to do a good job.

    • yonder@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      23 days ago

      It’s a meta search engine: it aggregates results from multiple sources for your search query. So yes, it queries other search engines.