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Kagi VS self hosted searx-ng

Pitch me. Which do you pick and why?

I prefer the self-hosted searxng. It's customizable as hell. Pretty decent search results.

I know some people trust and use kagi....Even if they're privacy oriented and you pay to use them, making them a little bit less incentivized to sell your information, it's still another company and at this point I have such a deep distrust for any fucking company with my own data that if I can self-host it, I will. That's just me though. I'm sure kagi a decent search company. At least so far they haven't done anything nefarious that I've read about.

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mattybs 1y ago

whoa I've never gone down this rabbit hole. project!

Enki 1y ago

It's pretty simple to spin up. They have a Docker version, and if you want to have a little bit more of an involved setup, you can do it without Docker.

Bill Cypher 1y ago

Some nodes, or at least start9, offer searx-ng as a package.

My biggest issue with searx is when I'm off my home network it is tor or back to google.

Second problem, since searx is a meta search and it is self hosted, all of the enabled search engines now get all of your queries and your IP. It does block their cookies and such at least.

mattybs 1y ago

You could always nginx back to it when you're off your network if you felt ok with exposing it

Enki 1y ago

Yeah, that's fair. I'm not a really big fan of Cloudflare, but I do use them to hide my home IP I use nginx for the reverse proxy. I should just move it to one of my other servers though that's not at home.

Bill Cypher 1y ago

What service from them do you use to hide your IP? Was it much of a pain in the ass?