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Any recommendations for meta search engines? (feddit.it)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it to c/foss@beehaw.org
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Soo, i was searching for a SearXNG alternative since it's an hassle to customize the UI, it's also slow and i didn't found much to be honest

The only things i found is Websurfx which look like vibecoded (at least, the readme look like it was wrote by a clanker and in the contributions there is an AI agent)

Do anyone have any suggestion?

Edit: i'd like to not spend money on a search engine tbh...that's why i'd like to self-host or use a public instance

Edit 2: i found out about those:

https://github.com/Ahwxorg/LibreY (kinda dead tbh)

https://git.bwaaa.monster/omnisearch (works but some engines don't)

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[–] Svinhufvud@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I moved to degoog from SearXNG. It's quite neat!

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looks good but some other used talked about it being vibecoded, they linked to other 3 meta search engines (aside from searxng) so it was still useful!

[–] Svinhufvud@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I tried omnisearch (in the links) too but 3 out of the 4 engines didn't work out of the box. Otherwise it looked good.

LibreY seems to be unmaintained.

So this leaves 4get. While it worked, it seemed to only search one engine at a time, which I didn't like. This might also be a configuration error on my part.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

LibreY looks like it hasn't been mantained for 3 weeks, i'd wait a little more to see if they mantain it, heck, they have a matrix room so i may just ask in there, i'il edit the comment if they answer

Edit: the room is dead...i sent 'em an E-Mail so let's wait ig

[–] Svinhufvud@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah the last commit is fron 3 weeks ago, but if you look at the commit history, it has been really sparse, and mostly consists of updating the public instances list.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh damn, i didn't check that, idk why i didn't thought of it, thatcs very sad since LibreY looks very good

We may need LibreZ XD

[–] Svinhufvud@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah I too liked the look lf LibreY on the first glance.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

etools.ch is the least worst one i found

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago

I'il try it thx!

[–] newton@feddit.online 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Theire 71 instances for searx , result are slow ? ,and it didn work for you ? Explain more please .
Did you just degoogled ?
Otherwise give Metager a try .

https://osint.link/

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, i didn't fully degoogled yet (still use their shit cuz i need it for professional life) but i try to use only FOSS software when i can

Searx compared to any other search emgine is kinda slower (but i can overlook it if i try to host it with better hardware i guess) and it's harder than it should be to personalize it

Also, isn't Metager paid? I'd like to not spend money for service i don't self-host, is it self-hostable?

I'il look in the link you sent, thx