====== Searx ======

Self-hostable frontend for various [[search engine|search engines]].

Privacy-wise it's useful to use a public instance. All requests to, say, Google, will come from one instance, so the profile Google creates is based on multiple people rather than a single person.

Feature-wise I'm attracted to the idea of setting it up to use a search that filters out garbage websites, or even a really focused search specific to a topic (so a curated list of websites search for a game-making web search for [[game_making_tools]], for example).

===== Searx and Searxng =====

  * [[github>searxng/searxng/discussions/972|[question] What's the difference between searx and searxng?]]
  * [[github>searxng/searxng#differences-to-searx|README.rst#Differences to searx]]
  * [[github>searxng/searxng/discussions/970|[question] hostname_replace plugin: what results do you ignore?]] - ng can ignore domains. Though I think this now equally exists in the original?
    * And may expand this feature: [[github>searxng/searxng/issues/1086|A feature that prioritizes certain websites for higher placement in search results]]

===== Config =====

==== Filtering ====

<code yaml settings.yml>

enabled_plugins:
	- 'Hostname replace'

hostname_replace:
# Hide results from these domains:
	'(.*\.)?w3schools\.com': false
# Replace these domains:
	'(.*\.)?reddit\.com$': 'old.reddit.com'
</code>

===== See Also =====

  * [[wp>Searx]]

{{tag>config search-engine self-host}}