Posted on 07/22/2022 6:27:55 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Have you ever wanted to create your own search engine? Of course you have! Well in today’s video, NetworkChuck is not only going to show you how to make your own search engine using Searx, he’s going to show you how to create your own private and secure search engine so you can keep these pesky tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook from creating profiles based on your search history!
Doubtful that any of our online searches are fully private. There will always be someone who has access to it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx#Instances
Any user may run their own instance of Searx,[20][21][22] which can be done to maximize privacy, to avoid congestion on public instances, to preserve customized settings even if browser cookies are cleared, to allow auditing of the source code being run, etc.[23][24][25] Users may include their Searx instances on the editable list of all public instances, or keep them private.[18][23] It is also possible to add custom search engines to a self-hosted instance that are not available on the public instances.[26]
Another reason to use different Searx instances, and/or to run one’s own, is that as of 2019, Google has begun to block some instances, including some of the IP addresses used by searx.me (former instance run by the developer), from querying it, resulting in a “google (unexpected crash: CAPTCHA required)” error.[27] In response, some instances have been modified to silently skip trying to search with Google, even when it’s the only engine specified.[28][29]
Google owns YouTube.
I use Bing. There’s no manipulation. You can filter whatever news your looking for to the past 24 hours, the past week, month etc.
Never had a problem.
And yet another instance of replying before investigating the source or reading the article (in this case, watching the video).
I have created web-spiders (crawlers) but never a whole search engine...
I now put narrowly focused crawlers into firmware for IoT devices.
ESP32 and Pico W are the poor-man’s hardware platforms of choice for such things.
Yep, I made being my default browser about a year ago. However, if I want to go to maps or images I go back to google for that stuff. Google just does those two things a lot better.
Use a decent VPN and you can also obscure your routing traces.
NO, just NO. Sure, you’re not giving your search history to Google, you’re giving it to Searx instead. Who knows what Chinese Government entity owns Searx.
No, I can't say I've ever wanted to do that. I leave the IT stuff up to the other guys.
I think of computers as a better way to get to my goals. The computer itself is not my goal, only a means to an end. When it comes to computer stuff, I'll let the other guys be the creators.
No, I can't say I've ever wanted to do that. I leave the IT stuff up to the other guys.
I think of computers as a better way to get to my goals. The computer itself is not my goal, only a means to an end. When it comes to computer stuff, I'll let the other guys be the creators.
I never use Google. Duck Duck Go works for for the past few years.
Searx is a local install. You're sending nothing to Searx.
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I’ve recently switched to the Brave search engine.
DDG relies on the index created by Google and has announced it will discriminate against non-woke sites.
Brave gets very different results for the same search, much less corporate.
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