I recently decided to host my own SearXNG instance. SearXNG is meta search engine. “What is a meta search engine?” I hear you ask. Well, a meta search engine is a search engine that uses other search engines to determine what results to show a user when they make a query. SearXNG supports many different search engines. On top of search, it supports doing unit conversions, like “35F to C”, and it can also present info panels from sites like Wikipedia. All of this functionality is supported out of the box and SearXNG makes it really easy to stand up your own instance with a docker image that they build. All you have to do is docker pull and then docker run the image. By default your instance will be available at localhost:8080. If self hosting is not for you, they host a webpage of public instances that other people have hosted and made available for other people to use. ...