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Yep, that's exactly what I was looking at (https://github.com/searx/searx). As I said, it was a QUICK dive but the wording was enough to make me shy away from it. For all the years I've been running servers, I won't put up anything that requires the latest/greatest of any code because that's where about 90% of the zero-days seem to come from. Almost all the big ones I've seen in the last few years where things that made me panic until I realized that oh, if your updates are more than a year old then none of this affects you. And the one that DID affect me had already been updated through a security release.
I think as written, I'd say these words are more FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt)
And I've been running servers for quite some time as well. SearXNG seems rock solid. And it's tested. And when I had security issues in general, it was because we didn't do timely updates. I haven't really ever been affected by zero days in my hobby linux endeavours. Okay, we had a few nasty things in some more fundamental building blocks and sometimes people using slower distributions had been fine... But I don't think it applies here. With these kinds of things, the latest stable release is your best bet. Not a previous version with bugs in it, which have been fixed since. And especially not an unmaintained project.
Yeah? OK well it's certainly worth taking a closer look at, and I was also doing some reading on Yacy. I've run one in the past called mnogosearch, with a lot of customization, but it would be nice to get into a community project like this.