Whoogle Search - Self-hosted Metasearch Engine
upstart writes:
Excellent Utilities: Whoogle Search - self-hosted metasearch engine:
Google has a firm grip on the desktop. Their products and services are ubiquitous. Don't get us wrong, we're long-standing admirers of many of Google's products and services. They are often high quality, easy to use, and 'free', but there can be downsides of over-reliance on a specific company. For example, there are concerns about their privacy policies, business practices, and an almost insatiable desire to control all of our data, all of the time.
What if you are looking to move away from Google and embark on a new world of online freedom, where you are not constantly tracked, monetised and attached to Google's ecosystem.
Whoogle Search is a privacy-focused search engine. It displays the same results as Google Search but without ads/sponsored content, JavaScript, cookies, or tracking.
[...] You can deploy it to PaaS hosting solutions such as Heroku, Fly.io, or Repl.it and lots of other platforms. Or you may choose to install it to a local machine on your network.
Website: github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search
Developer: Ben Busby
License: MIT License
At the bottom of the github page is a short list of public instances where you can try it out.
Anyone use this or searX for web searching, and if so, what are your experiences/recommendations?
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