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Be Your Own Privacy-Respecting Google, Bing & Brave (マリウス.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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… by running your own instance of the free and open-source federated metasearch engine SearXNG on OpenBSD!

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[–] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

I used to self-host searxng for a while, but somehow the search results were always off and mixed with to much non-relevant results :/.

It's not about searxng itself... Rather how the most relevant info gets drown into AI slope and non-sense bullshit. The best blogposts/info are transmitted from people to people...

I'm kinda sad to admit that stupid AI "solved" this issue and had better results :/

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    I used to self-host searxng for a while, but somehow the search results were always off and mixed with to much non-relevant results :/.

    I mean, getting non-relevant results happens with every search engine anymore.

    The days of your search results being relevant, and what you want on the first page, are long dead thanks to SEO and other factors.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah you're right ! However, ages ago, I still remember how you could go to page 20+ and still find some really interesting things !

    Here, past page 2 it's just some random shit...

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Most of its just AI generated websites. Search for any topic and you're likely to get 50 AI generated website that give a similar bulletpoint presentation of what search item X is according to the AI that generated the site.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    50 AI generated website that give a similar bulletpoint presentation of what search item X is according to the AI that generated the site.

    Yeah that's what I meant by "random" shit ! 😁

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    You can self host that too ;)

    OpenWebUI + Ollama + SearxNG. OpenWebUI can do llm web search using the engine of your choice (even self hosted SearxNG!). From there it's easy to set the default prompt to always give you the top (10, 20, whatever) raw results so you're not confined to ai results. It's not quite duck.ai slick but I think I can get there with some more tinkering.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Is there a guide on how to do this on Linux + 16GB Radeon?

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    I mean, I could write one! I kind of just pieced it together from guides on the three individuals

    Edit: back of the napkin guide below is basically in the OpenWebUI docs already! I use NixOS (btw) but docker/podman should work well.

    OpenWebUI + Ollama setup -- tl;dr docker run -d -p 3000:8080 --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway -v open-webui:/app/backend/data --name open-webui --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main

    OpenWebUI SearXNG guide -- a little more involved, but not difficult.

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