My latest Google search replacement recently made a decision that basically forces me to turn off ad block in order to click results. I was wondering if there was any self hosted solution that is fairly easy to deploy in TrueNAS scale or if it is even worth doing. Bonus points if it’s federated somehow. I’ll deal with bad results if it needs time to grow as a project.
I also want to add that what little self hosting I’ve done so far has felt like cutting out a festering cancer and it feels so good to be in control of my online life again. Thanks so much for the guidance since the Rexxit. Finding out that you could easily self host a Reddit replacement with other people was what got me going to into this to begin with.
Search engines take a LOT of work to run, which is why there’s so few of them. You can self-host a search engine that indexes one site, but not one that indexes the entire internet lol. The closest you’ll find is SearxNG as others mentioned. It’s not a search engine itself though; it just uses other search engines.