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By paying for API access to other search engines. Yahoo used to offer that publicly but eventually shut the service down (but kept DDG as a legacy customer)
That's interesting. I wonder the cost.
Even with a pool of proxies, I would expect an instance of this "metasearch engine" to quickly get banned by the other search engines. The same IP running thousands of queries and scraping its content (which is against their ToS) should be easily detectable.
Does this have any advantages over StartPage?
Does this have any advantages over StartPage?
* Queries other search engines besides just Google.
* Has more search options.
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google will give you a captcha every once in a while but they never actually stop you from using their service.
It will also sometimes ban you completely (not even the CAPTCHA works, solving it just gets you another) for ~2h. I've triggered it manually , usually when trying very specific queries and multiple variations in quick succession and also going through to the "end" of the result pages.
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Then that defeats the purpose of trying to be privacy focused if your search queries aren't mixed with other people's queries.
I can't grasp how you got that idea. Do you not know what self-hosted means? the engine craws the web and saves its data locally. this locally saved data can be queried/searched. So yes, in your search engine, there will only be your own searches. But these searches are only visible to your own servers/services.
By reading the link?
> the engine craws the web and saves its data locally ...Saves an index of the whole web, locally?
This is not what SearX does. It queries other search engines.
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I can't grasp how you got that idea. Do you not know what self-hosted means? the engine craws the web and saves its data locally. this locally saved data can be queried/searched. So yes, in your search engine, there will only be your own searches. But these searches are only visible to your own servers/services.
> I can't grasp how you got that idea. By reading the link? > the engine craws the web and saves its data locally ...Saves an index of the whole web, locally? This is not what SearX does. It queries other search engines.
i'm sorry for that. i just thought it wasn't necessary to edit as somebody sufficiently pointed out how mistaken i was 9 days ago.