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You've tried DuckDuckGo and Brave Search, now get serious with SearXNG
- textrunmax 3mo ago[dead]
- troybetz 3mo agoYou enable which search engines you want, only Bing is on by default. Turning on Google/DDG etc results in hackingwithswift, avanderlee, developer.apple.com docs and SO at the top.
- weezing 3mo agoSearXNG or serious, pick one.
- verdverm 3mo agoOr catch them all and fuse the results. I'm hitting Exa, Tavily, and self hosted SearXNG, then fusing the results with heuristics or an agent
- klaxce 3mo agoI like Brave search a lot. I don’t use the Brave browser though.
- bilegeek 3mo agoI wish they'd make it easier to adjust individual engine's weight, ideally right from the UI instead of a config file. Personally, after bumping up Google/Wiby and bumping down DDG/Presearch/Startpage (and disabling Bing altogether), results became much better. It still displays some results that only the latter engines turn up, but IMO there's noticeably less cruft.
- dgellow 3mo agoStill a happy Kagi user. Paying for search aligns the incentives cleanly IMHO
- HelloUsername 3mo ago> For example, DuckDuckGo requires running non-free JavaScript in your web browser I thought https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/ https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/ doesn't require Js
- wyrdcurt 3mo agoI use self-hosted SearXNG as part of my low-budget, privacy-oriented home AI stack with Open WebUI. It's a pretty useful tool! I'm a bit hesitant to post this because I'm not really here for self-promotion, but at some point I did have an LLM help me write up a guide on how I implemented it. It's here if anyone is curious: https://optimoss.ai/resources/searxng.html https://optimoss.ai/resources/searxng.html