actually awesome and fast search engine (depending on which instance you use) with no trashy AI and ADs results also great for privacy, if you don’t know which instance to use go to https://searx.space/ and choose an instance closest to you

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    12 days ago

    Can someone explain the meaning of the name and the people building this project please?

    You’re trusting how information is filtered and funneled to you with a search tool, but a change to take lightly. Google sucks, but they have a lot to lose, a lot of eyes on them and I know generally their base motivations.

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      Fortunately, you can read through the source code of SearxNG and even modify it - provided that you also publish the modified version to your users if you host it publicly.

      You can run your own instance, public or private. Or you can use a public instance.

      Internally, it uses other search engines, rather than crawling the entire web and indexing everything.