Re: [Trisquel-users] Searx metasearch engine
Wown, didn't know FF could do that. Thanks!
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Oooh I see. Contact Ruben and ask.
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When you use other people's instances dependent search engines can't get your IP address or any useful tracking information about you. Although thats not really true, if you are using some of the other Searx search types, like images and video. Searching for images will make you download image from other search engines and this can be used to track you by Google, Bing and others. You can use the RequestPolicy Continued add-on to protect against a site connecting you to 3rd party sites. There are other similar add-ons too, like uMatrix, but I haven't used it.
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just python
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Bananna Magique - I asked him if he meant this.. I think my senility is getting worse.. By the way the procedure you describe is the common one found in all major search engines. It requires allowing javascript. You can do that without javascript..
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I was asking about adding it as the default search engine on Abrowser.
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I set searx as my browser's default engine How does one go about doing that (i.e. what's the keyword thingie?)
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David - I'm not quite sure I understand your question correctly. Are you asking how to add and select searx in the search toolbar (or wahtever that is called) - like when you select a word and right click the mouse search with searx?
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Are you running with the Python that comes with Trisquel (CPython) or something like PyPy?
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You do make an interesting point. Let's say they release the code for this under the AGPL and we are all free to use it and hope it is just like the code run on the site. I say hope because they, as the copyright holder of the code, can change the license at any point and could be running a a custom version of the code under a different (potentially non-free) license.
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Exactly! People should leave the solitary non-descriptive links for spammers.
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I downvoted, because giving a non-descriptive link is an awful practice.
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J.B. Nicholson-Owens: I don't understand how the searx metasearch engine lives up to its claim of being Tracking free[1] or privacy respecting[2]. Meta search are useful as proxies. A given Searx instance can still track you by logging your search queries, but it's still much better than everyone sending all their queries directly to Google, Yahoo, Bing or DuckDuckGo, which allow them to accumulate tons-and-tons of information about everyone. Searx instances provide decentralization, in the sense that not all search queries of everyone are logged in one place. That's why Searx much better for freedom and privacy compared to Google or DuckDuckGo. Staring you own Searx instance is mostly useful for other people to use, not you, at least not directly. It's better for your privacy to use other people's instances, while providing a Searx instance for others. J.B. Nicholson-Owens: Depending on the details, the metasearch engine and/or the dependent search engines can record time/datestamps, IP addresses, queries, and returned results at a minimum. When you use other people's instances dependent search engines can't get your IP address or any useful tracking information about you. Magic Banana: DockDuckGo, Ixquick and Startpage promise that they neither store the IP address of their users nor their user agents. [...] I would feel better if searx.me would do the same promise. Promises are worthless. Especially worthless when give by a commercial interest, such as DuckDuckGo. Searx instances provide a much more real and practical solution for privacy, even if there could be a lot more work done.
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For the discussion, that would mean that SaSS is things that are good for privacy. An obvious bug! Not in the new quantumgravity programing language i'm using; go and build up some knowledge about computers, banana! You're completely outdated.
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Thanks for the link, it looks really good.
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char SaSS;
char things_that_are_bad_for_privacy;
void main(){
SaSS =! things_that_are_bad_for_privacy;
}
dont know of the =! operator but it compiles...
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shiret...@web.de wrote: It does not. You can't browse through a search engines database with your own computer only. Therefore, it is not software as a service substitute. And here I thought it did because I've already implemented the idea and it seems to be working. I guess I didn't think to run this past you first. Perhaps you should be more interested in what's good for improving privacy than dogmatically sticking to someone's definitions of terminology.
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Perhaps you should be more interested in what's good for improving privacy than dogmatically sticking to someone's definitions of terminology. I think you still don't get it: you can be interested in what's good for improving your privacy _without_ calling the use of search engines SaaSS. SaaSS =! things that are bad for privacy And it's far from acting dogmatically if you stick to the definition of a term;
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Oh my! Searx is fast, very fast. I think I'll be using it as my default search engine and see if the results are as good. I've looked at preferences and they work similarly to ixquick's old days: you can select what search engines to use.
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from a user interface point of view this search engine is the best i ever used! and its libre software bye bye ixquick! but do you need a powerful web-server to run the search engine yourself?
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tiri...@openmailbox.org wrote: Looking at the paragraph right above that one, it says: It provides basic privacy by mixing your queries with searches on other platforms without storing search data. Queries are made using a POST request on every browser (except chrome*). Therefore they show up in neither our logs, nor your url history. Right, but that doesn't address anything substantively so it doesn't answer anything at all. That's just a description of what any service has to do (mixing your queries) with an unverifiable claim of privacy (without storing search data). All services have to keep some track of who made which query in order to get them the right results back (we don't want people asking for cat pictures to get non-cat pictures back). Either the user's computer does this on their computer alone (which isn't feasible given the size of the DB needed to do this search in a thoroughgoing way) or the user submits the query to another computer (which makes it SASS with the privacy-busting that goes with all SASS). As for other info, it doesn't seem to say. However, considering that it focuses on privacy, and unlike similar services (cough cough DuckDuckGo) it's free software, I'm going to trust it and most likely use it in close future. Startpage/Ixquick are not foreseeably worse metasearch engines, and being free software SASS doesn't mean anything for the end user because one doesn't do the entire job on one's own computer.
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Looking at the paragraph right above that one, it says: It provides basic privacy by mixing your queries with searches on other platforms without storing search data. Queries are made using a POST request on every browser (except chrome*). Therefore they show up in neither our logs, nor your url history. As for other info, it doesn't seem to say. However, considering that it focuses on privacy, and unlike similar services (cough cough DuckDuckGo) it's free software, I'm going to trust it and most likely use it in close future.
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being free software SASS doesn't mean anything for the end user because one doesn't do the entire job on one's own computer. While this is true, usability-wise, I also appreciate the contribution to free software! :)
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heres a list of sites running the software: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances
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All services have to keep some track of who made which query in order to get them the right results back (we don't want people asking for cat pictures to get non-cat pictures back). Why should this be the case? It's perfectly possible to perform a search for some user and delete all data about the process afterwards.
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i compiled it sucsessfully run this command to save you some headaces! sudo apt-get install git build-essential libxslt-dev python-dev python-virtualenv python-pybabel zlib1g-dev heres a screenshot it runs rely rely rely fast btw but on thing to note is it only seems to work when i am connected to the internet so i am a bit confused as to were the search results are coming from...:
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i was trying to run searx and after installing all the dependency’s it wanted me to i get these errors: tom@trisquel7-gnu-linux:~/searx-master$ python searx/webapp.py Traceback (most recent call last): File searx/webapp.py, line 53, in from searx.engines import ( File /home/tom/searx-master/searx/engines/__init__.py, line 209, in engine = load_engine(engine_data) File /home/tom/searx-master/searx/engines/__init__.py, line 51, in load_engine engine = load_module(engine_name + '.py') File /home/tom/searx-master/searx/engines/__init__.py, line 44, in load_module module = load_source(modname, filepath) File /home/tom/searx-master/searx/engines/wikidata.py, line 3, in from searx.poolrequests import get File /home/tom/searx-master/searx/poolrequests.py, line 48, in http_adapters = cycle((HTTPAdapterWithConnParams(pool_connections=100), )) File /home/tom/searx-master/searx/poolrequests.py, line 14, in __init__ self.max_retries = requests.adapters.Retry(0, read=False) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Retry' anyone have any ideas?
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ugh what a tasteless awful radioactive green terminal color you got there ay ay ay!! :P
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i cannot contain my computers radio active power it is too great! i;t;s l;i;s;ti;n;i;ng ;:(; all hail the AMT in all your ADVANCEDNESS WE HAIL YOU! YOU ARE A GREAT INNOVATION YES YOU ARE WE LOVE YOU!
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I set searx as my browser's default engine, and tried a bunch of searches. I'd say the results were comparable to ones I'd get by hitting bing or google. but the result presentation is wonderfully clean and easy to read. Thanks rfor the suggestion.
[Trisquel-users] Searx metasearch engine
https://searx.me/about
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Why do people vote this down? Thanks a lot for sharing this link. I'll give it a try or is there anything wrong with this project?
