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Anybody out there self hosting Searxing?
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this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2026
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I wish we have a free to use, open source, and privacy respecting search engine that do the crawling and indexing and don’t rely on other search engines.
Maybe we can utilize all selfhosted instances to do the crawling and consolidate it.
@deleted @BonkTheAnnoyed
https://openwebsearch.eu/
Getting there :)
Can’t wait to use it. Id support them as much as I can.
@deleted
https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/5327
Hopefully it will gain some traction :)
Not saying it's perfect but doesn't Yacy do this?
How did I not know about it sooner.
Thank you!!
Oh wouldn't that be sweet, a federated web crawler