What does HackerNews think of whoogle-search?

Ask HN: Best search engine alternatives to Google? | Jun 2023

I like Whoogle (https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search), e.g., https://s.tokhmi.xyz/, and Searx (https://github.com/searx/searx), e.g., https://searx.space/

I've also programmed https://metaforecast.org, which aggregates over prediction platforms (Polymarket, Metaculus, Manifold Markets, etc.)

Is Google getting worse? Why critics say ads, spam sites are killing search | Nov 2022

I still think google has the best results, but I'm not surprised that the new york post is trying to sow distrust in google as a company. IMO google results are still better than bing results

But also: I use an alternative frontend[1] that I host locally. Very fast, you get google-tier latency and google-tier results without google-tier bloat. Would highly recommend it to anyone who likes the results but doesn't like the company.

[1] https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

Why the world needs a non-profit search engine | Jul 2022

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You can also use Whoogle if you’d rather self host.

https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

Kagi: A Premium Search Engine | Jan 2022

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or whoogle: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search (which i love btw)

Ask HN: Why doesn't anyone create a search engine comparable to 2005 Google? | Dec 2021

Not sure if this is any close to what you’re trying to find, but there’s https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

Ask HN: Best way to Google? log out first | Nov 2021

I have been using Whoogle search for the last two months:

https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

It is "A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine". Happy with the experience so far.

Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser | Oct 2021

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About the tracking part, you may like to check Whoogle Search - https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search It's Google results without the tracking, and it can be self-hosted.

Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser | Oct 2021

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I haven't used Google for many years, so I can't speak to whether it shows personalized results today. But, I recently switched to Whoogle Search (https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search) which shows Google results but without the tracking. I am happy with it, that I have completely ditched DuckDuckGo in favor of it.

DuckDuckGo has had 0 search warrants since founding in 2008 | Oct 2021

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I found a self hosted whoogle[0] to be a good middle ground.

[0]: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store | Sep 2021

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Use whoogle then

https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

Introducing Brave Search beta | Jun 2021

There is a self-hosted Google search (which just strips some tracking but ultimately sends the query to Google nonetheless).

- https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

I would be curious if what HN thinks of it. I have experimented with it and it works fine from a user perspective.