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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)

Edit 3: parentesis

Edit 4: Degoog may be the solution, i am still open to other solutions tho

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[–] heliotrope@retrofed.com 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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/

[–] Svinhufvud@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for doing the research on this!

[–] Svinhufvud@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] heliotrope@retrofed.com 1 points 1 month ago

No worries. It's tricky finding decent software these days!