Remember what I said about open-to-public services in the last post? Introducing the first one here, SearXNG. If you haven’t noticed before, I have this ONE specific 88x31 button on my homepage:

I always wanted to host my own SearX instance, and here it is! Or actually, my own instance of its successor, SearXNG, which is a fork of SearX that eventually became the reigning project as SearX is dead. Oh well, at least SearX’s legacy didn’t die along with itself.

What is SearX/SearXNG, anyway? Here’s the description of the SearXNG GitHub repository:

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

A metasearch engine, like SearX/SearXNG, is a search engine that retrieves its results by collecting results from multiple search engines, instead of using its own index like Google does. Since the engine is the one making requests to the other search engines instead of the user, it improves the privacy of the user since those search engines can’t collect data from the user, unlike when using those search engines directly.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine. Illustrator: JakobVoss. License: CC BY-SA 3.0

Since SearXNG is meant to be a privacy-respecting search engine that can be self-hosted, it is a quite popular alternative to major search engines. You can choose to use any public instances (including mine!) as long as you trust the provider, or self-host your own private instance.

Okay, enough of babble about what is SearXNG.

You are hereby invited to use the SearXNG service provided at https://search.neo64.xyz/. My guarantee is that I will never log your search queries, user agent information, or your unmasked IP address whenever you are using this service. I do, however, use the inbuilt rate limiter that keeps a SHA256 hash of your salted IP address in a period of no more than 10 minutes for operational purposes.

So anyway, feel free to use my SearXNG instance :). Please note that at the time of writing this, the instance isn’t quite finished yet as I haven’t done configuring it to my liking. Expect more downtimes for now.

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