Hi all, been a while since I posted the degoog beta, been head down working on all my apps.
Some of you may know me for Jotty and Cronmaster on top of degoog, hi friends!
- You can find the core repo here: https://github.com/degoog-org/degoog
- The official extensions repo here: https://github.com/degoog-org/official-extensions
- And a little showcase of community made extensions: https://degoog-org.github.io/community-extensions/
Degoog is a search aggregator meant to be plug and play, the app itself is extremely light (about 50mb to 70mb ram usage whilst idle, biggest spike I’ve seen recently has been about 100mb in usage), and then there’s a very comprehensive extension system where you can create engines, plugins and transports (transports are the way I’ve named systems to fetch data, headless browsers, curl alternatives and so on).
The app has been in beta for a while and today I’ve released the first stable beta, so I’d love to re-announce it here and get at bit more feedback. Next post I’ll make will be once it’s out of beta and fully stable, trying to not spam this too much.
Little quick history for anyone who hasn’t seen the first post, this was born from my PERSONAL gripes with searxng (no shades, the internet is beautiful because it’s vary), can’t say my project is better, it’s too new to say that, but it works more for my personal preferences and hopefully it resonates with some of you too.
Let’s talk about AI usage like adults please
This is NOT vibecoded, it’s not AI driven and it’s NOT some slop put together in 5 minutes. Some people here know me, they know I maintain my projects, I code myself and I have been a software engineer for many many years.
I actually have rejected pull requests that were very obviously vibecoded (p.s. fucking hilarious if you check the CLAUDE.md file in the repo, the PRs were riddled with these comments I force in there).
That said I obviously make some use of AI, it’s 2026, dunno what you all expect, open source however is my way to escaping how my day job REQUIRES me to use AI, so it’s only used for stuff I can’t be bothered to do (e.g. repetitive boring tasks, documentations, tests and heavy debugging). If you have issues with this please go tell a carpenter to use a manual screwdriver and not a power drill and see if they say yes or throw it at you, thank you <3
It seems that both google and reddit block requests coming from my VPN provider(PIA). I may have to set up my own VPN server using Azure or AWS if things keep going this way.
Hey!
Yeah annoyingly there’s not much that can be done about that, however there’s quite a few transports in the official store to try and get around it.
The 4play transport is quite clever if you have patience to set it all up, although you have to compromise a little on privacy with that one.
It’s all a balance really, I have a few local sock5 proxies setup using openvpn via expressvpn and they work like a charm, sometimes I hit 0 results but clicking on retry immediately gives me results back.
Hope this helps ♥️
I hope I didn’t come off as complaining about degoog. I’m definitely not. degoog is awesome.
Thanks for the advice about the proxies. I’ll be looking into that as I continue to work on keeping prying eyes off our internet usage. I suspect this will be a never ending struggle for the rest of my life.
You absolutely did not come across that way!
I found a bug in the latest release where search suggestions actually added to rate limiting, I wonder if that’s what’s plaguing you right now, I’d try the
developimage as I split the two for next release!Also feel free to join discord for more direct communications, so I can help you more if needed ♥️