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)
Edit 3: parentesis
Edit 4: Degoog may be the solution, i am still open to other solutions tho
etools.ch is the least worst one i found
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 .I moved to degoog from SearXNG. It’s quite neat!
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!
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.
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
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.
Btw, they sent back an email, it says:
Hi, the probject is not really maintained anymore. I think you’d be better off using SearXNG or something along those lines.
💔
Oh damn, i didn’t check that, idk why i didn’t thought of it, that’s very sad since LibreY looked promising
We may need LibreZ XD
Fair bit of AI-generated code, I’m afraid: https://slopscan.ava.pet/repo/https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fdegoog-org%2Fdegoog
Apparently they use coderabbit to review PRs which then they get reviewed by a human, so it’s not that bad, they also have a claude.md to make AIs add a comment so then the author can see if it was AI coded or not https://github.com/degoog-org/degoog/blob/main/CLAUDE.md
So it may be safe
Edit: They also said on reddit that they do not vibe code: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1u0hq7f/degoog_is_my_take_on_a_meta_search_aggregator/
Thanks, didn’t know.
Depends whether privacy or relevance matters to you more.
It’s 50/50
Someome already suggested degoog, sadly it looks like they use AI* so it leaves 4get which i wanna try soon
*i’il ask in their server discord how much they use AI, i hope they don’t straight up vibecode
Edit: someone answered, apparently they use coderabbit to review PRs which then they get reviewed by a human, so it’s not that bad, they also have a claude.md to make AIs add a comment so then the author can see if it was AI coded or not https://github.com/degoog-org/degoog/blob/main/CLAUDE.md
So it may be safe
They also said on reddit that they do not vibe code: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1u0hq7f/degoog_is_my_take_on_a_meta_search_aggregator/
Does MetaGer qualify ?
