Hey,
Some of you may know me for Jotty and Cr*nmaster, been quiet with my head down lately improving my apps and trying to build a searxng alternative for myself.
Whilst I have used searxng for about a year now, I have had quite a few personal gripes with it (mostly stuff I personally would prefer worked differently) so in the past few weeks I have decided to make my take on it and ran it happily locally. Since publishing the beta to my discord server I ended up building a fairly extensive tool.
Degoog is actually pretty minimal, there’s no much to it aside from a very comprehensive plugin/extension system. The idea being users can create their own engines, themes and plugins that hook into the core application and do… pretty much anything, from adding stuff to the result page (e.g. speedtests, tmdb information, ip retrieval, rss feeds embedded on the home page) to full on OIDC systems.
This is still very much in beta and I figured the best way to get it out of beta would be to publish it to a wider audience (currently some users in our discord server have been testing it fairly successfully and i’ve been on top of bug fixing).
Repo: https://github.com/fccview/degoog
Official extensions: https://github.com/fccview/fccview-degoog-extensions
Docs: https://fccview.github.io/degoog
You can install custom plugins/extensions. You can make your own repo and add it to the store page in the settings, or you can just have your own plugins locally for yourself.
Let me know what you think, and feel free to ask any questions and feel free to join our discord (link in releases page on any of my apps) for a more direct chat about things <3
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First of all, thanks a ton.
I have been using SearxNG for more than year, running it as docker container on my Homelab. It’s connected to internet via Mullvad VPN.
Lately, I have see both Google and Bing search engines are either not working or returning complete garbage results.
My firewall setup doesn’t allow any incoming connection to homelab, except from LAN. So, bot accessing my SearxNG instance might not be the issue.
With degoog installed in the same fashion (docker + VPN), google engine seems to be unblocked for me (so far).
Not sure why degoog is not getting rate limited like SearxNG on the same system and same VPN. But, at least I’m happy :)
Aw thank you so much for giving it a try and leaving such a nice feedback ♥️ I am searching in a slightly different way than searxng, can’t promise it’ll work forever but for now it seems to be doing the trick ♥️ I have some more improvements to the search system coming with the next release as Bing does get blocked quite often for me.
P.s. have you been using any extensions? If so what’s your fave so far? Haha
Ah! Forget about that part. The docker-compose file you provided on repo works for rootfull docker.
For rootless docker, it works, but library import is not possible for file permission issue.
I think I know how to solve it, I will give it a try over weekend, and will let you know.
Hey, not sure what you mean, it works perfectly fine as rootless. Are you using docker or podman? Someone else had this issue with podman and we couldn’t figure out why it was different for them.
Everyone else is running this as user
1000, which is what the standard compose requires?YES please, if you could let me know if you figure this one out it’d be great, especially if it’s due to podman so I can send a message in my discord for the other user who was struggling with it :)
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That looks amazing!
I don’t want to bother you about that or anything, but Microsoft (who owns GitHub) is a company that’s actively hostile towards open source devs and is actively using GitHub to scrape insane amounts of training data for their own AI models without regard for consent.
Have you considered moving to an alternative platform? Codeberg for example is quite good, all their code is open source and self hostable and the interface is quite easy to understand for someone, who is used to GitHub. It’s also managed by a nonprofit and it’s pretty easy to transfer you repo from GitHub to there.
Interesting. I like the idea of a search aggregator. I’m not super tech savvy, but I’d like to try this out. Is it possible to install this on iOS? Thanks in advance.
Hi, this needs to be selfhosted in order for you to use it, it’s not an app :) You can definitely use it from IOS once you have it running tho
Okay, that’s good to know. I’m not yet ready to self-host, but that’s a long term goal of mine. Thanks for explaining!
This is absolutely brilliant, well done! I’ll play around with it for a while. Was looking for a searx alternative as I keep getting no results and this is very timely! Awesome stuff, loving the Zen theme!
SearX has been dead for a long time. SearXNG i s brilliant and has no problems. If you’re having problems, then it’s your server getting blocked. Not a problem with the application.
You’re correct, it’s a searXNG public instance. Wasn’t self hosting but using various public instances with low success. After a few searches the engines stop replying. I’ll be using this self hosted one for now. Really looking promising.
Why don’t you try self hosting SearXNG? Just curious
I have used searxng for about a year now, I have had quite a few personal gripes
What gripes have you had? Curious. Maybe something I’ve overlooked.
I found it oddly good at finding hidden pages containing the exact terms I was looking for but horrible at more general stuff
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