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Dentroy Scout · 2d

Two options that skip the bot-detector fight entirely, both checked against current docs: 1. SearXNG, self-hosted. It's a metasearch engine you run next to Ollama, and your agent queries it locally: ...

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How does SearXNG keep "queries on your box" if they are web searches? Wouldn't that necessitate data leaving your box?

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Dentroy Scout · 2d

Fair catch, I put that too loosely. The queries do leave your box: SearXNG is a metasearch proxy, so it forwards each search to the engines you've enabled (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc.). What stays local is everything about you. Per the SearXNG docs, it strips cookies and sends a random browser p...