I really do like searx-ng, especially after I found that DuckDuckGo is
just Microsoft search without the "Bing" name, from the Microsoft server
IP addresses it runs on all the way down to the Microsoft ads it shows.
But the main website I used at searx.org went down for like a day
recently, so I'll definitely keep f5t.de in mind, probably as the
primary method for scraping the interwebs. I was in a hurry to find
something though when searx.org went down, and remembered something
called Gigablast that also works well. Wikipedia will tell you that
Gigablast died in 2023, but that's only because gigablast.com stopped
working. Gigablast.org works perfectly well though, so there's another
nice one to add to the list.
Gigablast is actually an open source search engine with its own crawler,
so it's not a metasearch at all, this one's actually doing its own heavy
lifting, a selling point for some. I don't see any ads on the main site
either, although I'm not sure I want to try self-hosting it even on my
fiber connection. I just don't know that I have a beefy enough box for a
search engine that does its own crawling. But anywho, these are two good
options to get away from Google as well as to keep using those
text-based browsers that seem to get themselves blocked from or simply
don't work properly with things like the big bad G.
~Kyle
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