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Luke Smith breaks down Searx — a privacy-first, open-source metasearch that pulls results without your machine talking to big engines. Clear, practical, and must-see if you want searchable privacy and self-hosting tips. #Searx #Privacy #SearchEngine #OpenSource #SelfHosted #PrivacyTools #Fediverse #English
https://peertube.shi4home.com/videos/watch/e0f5a4d7-070d-4a03-aca4-3d898b5c5002

The Proper Way to Do Web Searches (Searx)

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Kevin Karhan

Mar 14

@Rowan yeah, that's kinda absurd, cuz I got more than a dozen of those...

Maybe @monocles / #monoclesSearch can implement an #AIslop-#Filter on their search?
- Pretty shure #searx as underlying #SearchEngine can do that.
- After all, search engines like Ahmia filter out CSAM domains (for obvious reasons!) so it stands to reason that one could just put all "#AI" slop onto a selectable filter one can toggle…

lists.d/ai.content.domains.block.list.tsv at main · greyhat-academy/lists.d

List of useful things. Contribute to greyhat-academy/lists.d development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Klaus-Gerd Giesen Mar 11

Why do I get different search results when I use different #searXNG instances? Shouldn't it be the same?

#privacy #browser #searchengine #searx #searxInstances #searxinstance #askfedi

Tobias Zeumer Jan 28

Lange Zeit https://monocles.eu/search mit Searx als Hauptsuchmaschine genutzt. Bis es leider nicht mehr ging.

Nun eben ein Video zu https://searxng.org gesehen, das ich mir 2023-03 auch schon notiert hatte (aber vergessen, warum wieder abgekommen). Next try.

Btw., das Video ist ganz nett zum Thema lokale Nutzung (Search Without Being Searched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6hZ7gkpSVU ; Guide: https://youtux.org/SearXNG:-Your-Gateway-to-Digital-Freedom.html), aber erstmal reicht eine von https://searx.space

#searx #searXNG #search_engines #tor

monocles search

monocles search, powered by searx

frederic Jan 26

public #searx instances
https://searx.space
#searxng #search #internetsearch

SearXNG instances

Online and offline instances

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OSI Policy Team Jan 22

Some additional projects funded by #NextGenerationInternet: #kbin #aerogramme #bonfire #briar #calligra #CollaboraOffice, #DAVx5, #funkwhale #GoToSocial #jitsi #loops #peertube #pretalx #searx #wireguard

You can find a full list here (all the ones who indicate NGI as their fund): https://nlnet.nl/project/

NLnet; All projects

Anthony Jan 20

Am I to understand from this that SearXNG is in the process of becoming AI poisoned?

The last issue hasn't been active since 2023 but the 1st one has been active recently and the middle one last summer.

#SearX #SearXNG #SearchEngines #AlternateSearchEngines #MetaSearchEngines #web #dev #tech #FOSS #OpenSource #AI #AIPoisoning #AISlop #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #ChatGPT #Claude #Perplexity

Integrating LLMs into search (link prediction, top-site summarization, stable diffusion images, academic articles) · Issue #2163 · searxng/searxng

There are plenty of amazing solutions for using large language models (LLMs) to help with searching. For sake of compressing this request, I'll point out four kinds of them that I want in a modern ...

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Camarade Seb Jan 8

Anyone still manages to use searx? I get error messages from most engines, and the few that do return results return low quality ones that aren't even in the specified language. I started using searx about three years ago and at first it worked well. Then I had to either change my engine settings or switch instances increesingly often. The instance in this example is search.disroot.org, which seemed to work for me a small while ago, then worked inconsistantly, then not at all. I've never ran my own instance, I don't think I'm equipped for that at tbe moment, but would that solve the issue? Or are there other public instances not facing these problems? Or —I hope not— did these search engines companies start garding themselves against meta search engines using their results, to force us to use them directly?
#searx #degoogle #search_engines

The whale Dec 27

𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗫:

#SearchEngine #Privacy #SearX

https://thewhale.cc/posts/searx

Searx is a metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing information about its users.

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uebelhacker Dec 16

@sarahjamielewis not sure whether #firefox forks like in @iode's #iodéOS can also offer "AI disable by default" or remove any #AI code, but it seems a legitimite way to go. Also, it will be an #EU country to handle such modifications. #France #digitalsouvereignity

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iodé Browser

iodé browser is based on Firefox with #telemetry disabled, trackers removed, and alternative search engines: #Qwant (default), #Brave, #Ecosia, #Metager, Qwant light, #Startpage and several #Searx instances.
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https://iode.tech/iodeos/

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