I saw a YouTube video recommending SearXNG yesterday and thought I would try it out. It is essentially a proxy that takes your search queries, runs them anonymously through a handful of popular sites like Google. DuckDuckGo, and Brave (or dozens of others depending on preference and what you are looking for), and then does a bunch of wizardry to assemble the results in a relevant list. It was dead easy to set up if you are used to running docker containers, and within about 20 minutes I was up and running with my own search portal.

I’ve got fiber now, so I’m trying out a bunch of fun ideas from /r/selfhosted to see what is useful.