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		tintedfireglass on June 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A look at search engines with their own indexes (2... How is this different from SearX(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx) Wont just hosting your own searX instance be an easier thing to do? Curious. :)

mg on June 21, 2022 [–]

With SearX I would have to maintain a python parser for each engine:

https://github.com/searx/searx/tree/master/searx/engines

Most of which are like 100 lines long:

https://github.com/searx/searx/blob/master/searx/engines/wik...

And probably often break:

https://github.com/searx/searx/commits/master/searx/engines/...

While the way I do it, all I have to do is maintain a single link per engine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?fulltext=1&search=hello...

So far, none of the links ever broke.

tintedfireglass on June 21, 2022 | [–]

Interesting. Thanks for the insights :)

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