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4get – A metasearch engine (self.opensource)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by asmodeus to c/[email protected]

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4get is a metasearch engine, similar to Searx and SearXNG

You can find the source code here: https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/4get

And use it here: 4get.ca

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Alternatives like Searx or YaCy all fucking sucks so I made my own thing." (about 4get)

damn. based.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

what's with that? without mentioning why they suck, that's just the ol' "trust me, bro"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Too bad it still sucks.

As a test, I searched Google for "headphone jack" site:lemmy.ml and got 18 results, whereas I got only two results with 4get (DuckDuckGo), and zero results on all the other engines (Brave etc).

For a meta search engine, it's surprising that it doesn't support searching Google for web results.

[–] asmodeus 12 points 1 year ago

The developer is still working on the Google scraper

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

What exactly makes it better than SearxNG?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw this on another post about Searx. I was curious so I checked out the search and its pretty good. I did not see a lot of settings to configure tho

[–] asmodeus 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which settings do you think need to be added that are missing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

'Open in new tab' and 'infinite scroll' options.

Oh and also.. Search suggestions as you type, that would be awesome.

I quite like this search engine as it is right now. The features I mentioned are all 'nice to haves' so it's not a big deal even if these are not added.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Been using this for a while now just for the Gruvbox theme lol. IIRC, it defaults to DDG results.

[–] asmodeus 2 points 1 year ago

You can change the search preferences here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When people self host searx and 4get, is it meant to be local use too, or is it only for public use? (or both?)

Like would it be stupid if I host searx but only for local use? How does it even work?

[–] asmodeus 2 points 1 year ago

Both.

Ideally, if you're hosting a private one, it's better to share it with your friends since it helps to obfuscate the traffic.