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Self hosted search options (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by root@lemmy.world to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

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For years, I have been using Whoogle for my self-hosted searches. It's been great, but recently there were some upstream changes that seem to have broken it.

I'm guessing that SearXng will soon follow (based on the assumption that they too are using the JS free results Google used to provide).

Does anyone have any self-hosted search options that still work? I hear Kagi is good for paid/ non-self hosted options, but just curious what you all are using.

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[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well, since SearXNG aggregates results from more than 70 search engines and not solely Google, it's a safe bet they'll be fine regardless of Googles moves. However, sourcing results from Google may be impacted, but they still have many other options built in aside from Google. Whoogle being a proxy only for Google makes it reliant on Google, so their upstream changes will be very noticeable. This being the case, I'd say switching to SearXNG is going to be the best move as it has redundancy built in making it not dependent on any one engine.