Any private search engines that aren’t SearxNG? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by Silly_Goose@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I’ve gotten very into self-hosting (on device, not on a server) my own search engine, but searxng is unbearably clunky to make run on my Gentoo OpenRC machine. Two projects stuck out, 4get and omnisearch, but which of these do you think is the best and do you know other ones?

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[-] unglueclass23@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago

It may be good in some scenarios, but paying for it is unacceptable.

this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2026

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