Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy

Re:Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy by 3np on Thursday November 12, 2020 @09:24PM (#25078118)

Looking at their repos, it seems it’s mostly metasearch. Only crawler I see is specifically for news.

I’d be curious to hear if anyone self hosted this and searx and how they compare.

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Re:Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy by Fnoord on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:03AM (#25080112)

I self-host SearX, and so can you. Its fairly easy with Docker [1]. However via self-hosting you don't get the anonymity benefits from their upstream (Bing, Yandex, whatever else you enable) which you do get via a public SearX. But with a public SearX instance you don't get the privacy benefits from that instance (ie. all searches can be traced to you).

So I end up using both public and self-hosted SearX, DDG, and Google as last resort.

[1] https://github.com/searx/searx-docker

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Re:Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy by 3np on Friday November 13, 2020 @04:17AM (#25080567)

Yeah, it's already on my bucket list, asking because Qwant looks self-hostable as well :)

Still some privacy benefits in not having physical location tied to searches, and an instance can be shared with friends and family.

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