Related: no mention in that article of notorious (Vancouver B.C.) Kayla Bourque, who once studied criminal law purportedly to better accomplish the future murder of a homeless person, plus other sociopathic behaviors ...
Good to know; thank you. :-) I suppose the advantages (mine) may include keyword exclusions (I'm not sure if that functionality is available in the API), and local hosted (hence, more "private" -- whatever that means these days ;-) code.
searX is a free metasearch engine with the aim of protecting the privacy of its users.
* searX does not share users’ IP addresses or search history.
* Tracking cookies served by the search engines are blocked.
* searX queries do not appear in search engine webserver logs.
In addition to the general search, the engine also features tabs to search within specific domains:
General | Files | Images | IT | Maps | Music | News | Science | Social Media | Videos
Notably:
* Each search result is given as a direct link to the respective site,
rather than a tracked redirect link as used by Google.
* When available, these direct links are accompanied by “cached” and/or
“proxied” links that allow viewing results pages without
actually visiting the sites in question.
* The “cached” links point to saved versions of a page on archive.org, while
the “proxied” links allow viewing the current live page
via a searX-based web proxy.
Tip: I do a lot of technical searches (StackOverflow …) and in my preliminary use of searX
I find that selecting “General” (only) as the Default Category (in Preferences) gives the best results.
Non-Docker Local Installation of searX on Linux: https://persagen.com/2020/02/02/searx.html
I use it routinely as my default search interface to the web, defaulting rarely e.g. to Google for image seaches.