How to Self-host a Search Engine in 15 Minutes | Linux Today

How to Self-host a Search Engine in 15 Minutes

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Dmitri Popov
Oct 11, 2024

After trialing SearXNG for a while, I decided to host my own SearXNG instance. In case you are not familiar with SearXNG, it’s a metasearch engine that pulls search results from multiple sources, such as Google, Qwant, Brave Search, DuckDuckGo, etc. It does that while scrubbing off tracking, profiling, and other surveillance capitalism cruft.

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Dmitri Popov

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