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If you’ve ever complained about big search engines like Google and
Bing logging your search activity and profiting from it, you’ve
probably been greeted with the same sarcastic reply: “Ha, then why
don’t you just create your own search engine?” The joke behind that
reply is that it would be impractical to try to have your own search
engine. Until now, that is.
Searx is an open source tool that gives you full control of your own
private search engine. All you need is a private server and a little
bit of command line judo to run through the installation process.
- Why Have a Private Search Engine?
- How to Install Searx On Debian
- Deny/Allow IP Addresses With Nginx
- Some Next Steps
Virtual Private Network (VPN) service.
It’s free because Searx is open source technology you can install at
no cost (except the minimal costs of maintaining your own server).
It’s easy to install Searx. All you need to do is log into your
server via SSH and type in a few commands. It helps to have some
knowledge of the Nginx web server you will be using to serve your
search engine on the web.
It’s also a good idea to keep your search engine private to avoid
high load on the server; you don’t want hundreds or thousands of
people using your Searx instance at the same time as this will slow
down your overall server performance. You can privatize your
instance by installing it locally, or using the built-in Nginx IP
deny function (which will be covered in this article).
pros and cons of the Debian
operating system.
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