I’ve been a big fan of SearXNG for a while now. My distain for google has only grown, so having the ability to search and avoid things like yk, small AI models being installed on my PC without my consent, is awesome.
SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine
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Re: SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine
#52This appears to be a key tool for providing search to local models. I'm curious what setups folks use to provide this functionality. Since the quantized 24B parameter Gemma model came out, I've had good luck with tool calling on a 4070 Ti Super. Successful tool calling is what finally made the local experience useful. I should note this is for the general and not coding specific context.
are you running a quant? i have a friend with a 4080 that is wanting to experiment with local models and those cards should be similar enough. can you give any more detail about your setup? ty!
Yep -
`gemma4-26b-a4b-it-qat.gguf`
https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it...
It is really great to use. As the poster above mentioned, my setup with Sear is the following, all through `llama.cpp`, which has a built-in webui with an MCP client:
* SearXNG in Docker — enable the JSON API (`search.formats: [html, json]`; off by default).
* `searxng-mcp` (FastMCP, native streamable-HTTP): `TRANSPORT=streamable-http HOST=127.0.0.1 PORT=8100` `SEARXNG_URL=http://localhost:8888 uvx --from searxng-mcp --with fastmcp searxng-mcp`
* `llama-server` with `--webui-mcp-proxy`, then add the server in the webui.
Some gotchas:
* `searxng-mcp` forgets to declare its own dep → `--with fastmcp`.
* Endpoint is `/mcp`, not the `/searxng-mcp/mcp` the docs claim.
* `--webui-mcp-proxy` only enables the CORS proxy; each MCP server entry still needs its "Use llama-server proxy" checkbox ticked, or the browser fetches direct and CORS-fails.
* Terminal clients (OpenCode etc.) skip the proxy — point them straight at `:8100/mcp`.
A couple interesting tidbits:
* There are temporal issues with search-related tool calls. The model trips out. 2026 results read to it a "future-dated hallucination" because it doesn't know the date. There's an additional `--tools get_datetime` function that will allow it to ground via the real date.
* Snippets-only is enough for most "what's current" questions and keeps context tiny.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Re: SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine
#53Ohi, I'm the original creator of Searx, but due to the limitations of the metasearch concept I'm not involved in the development anymore. My new search project is https://github.com/asciimoo/hister ( https://hister.org/ ). Hister is a full text indexer for websites and local files which automatically saves all the visited pages rendered by your browser. Storing full page content allows serving offline result previews…
I'm sorry for not taking the time to read the docs, but I have a question. Some 20 years ago a friend of mine has set up a local proxy (python if I'm not mistaken) that was gathering all his web traffic and served him as a long term memory. The proxy had a web interface and allowed him to quickly find something he saw ca. 10 days ago, or that specific algorithm he recalls but can't remember it's name. For years I've…
Would you mind sharing these links? Or a subset? I want to grow my collection which is tiny because I started way too late
Re: SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine
#54Ohi, I'm the original creator of Searx, but due to the limitations of the metasearch concept I'm not involved in the development anymore. My new search project is https://github.com/asciimoo/hister ( https://hister.org/ ). Hister is a full text indexer for websites and local files which automatically saves all the visited pages rendered by your browser. Storing full page content allows serving offline result previews…
Hister sounds like something I wanted for a while, but never got around to building. Searching stuff I’ve seen before is most of what I do with a search engine, so having it local and fast would be amazing. Eager to give it a try.
Re: SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine
#55Ohi, I'm the original creator of Searx, but due to the limitations of the metasearch concept I'm not involved in the development anymore. My new search project is https://github.com/asciimoo/hister ( https://hister.org/ ). Hister is a full text indexer for websites and local files which automatically saves all the visited pages rendered by your browser. Storing full page content allows serving offline result previews…
I was considering paying someone to build something like this at some point. With two jobs, I eventually had no time to even organize what I find. It's just piles of links in text files.
Can I give your software a huge list of URL's to index? Or do I need to use browser automation to open them a few at a time with it caching and indexing them?
Re: SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine
#56Ohi, I'm the original creator of Searx, but due to the limitations of the metasearch concept I'm not involved in the development anymore. My new search project is https://github.com/asciimoo/hister ( https://hister.org/ ). Hister is a full text indexer for websites and local files which automatically saves all the visited pages rendered by your browser. Storing full page content allows serving offline result previews…
This is great, like many others I've been thinking of something like hister but only for bookmarked web pages. I presume it should be straightforward with hister to do that?
All the best!
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#57Highly recommend this. I set up a self-hosted instance and been using it exclusively for months. It's better than DDG and i don't miss Google whatsoever.
Image search is worse i guess mostly for lack of CDN so it's slow but whatever.
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#58This is really great!
Re: SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine
#59Ohi, I'm the original creator of Searx, but due to the limitations of the metasearch concept I'm not involved in the development anymore. My new search project is https://github.com/asciimoo/hister ( https://hister.org/ ). Hister is a full text indexer for websites and local files which automatically saves all the visited pages rendered by your browser. Storing full page content allows serving offline result previews…
This is great, like many others I've been thinking of something like hister but only for bookmarked web pages. I presume it should be straightforward with hister to do that? All the best!
It is possible. The automatic website indexing can be turned off in the extension and manual indexing can be triggered via the command line tool, the extension popoup or by hotkeys.
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#60searxng is fantastic for AI agents