Help support the channel and get a weekly exclusive podcast! patreon.com/thelinuxcast ==== Time Stamps ==== 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:29 Installation of Searx 00:01:38 Docker and Docker-Compose 00:04:29 Portainer 00:08:40 Installing Searx in Portainer 00:15:31 Taking a Look at Searx 00:20:16 Wrapping Up
On Ubuntu and other non-rolling distros you can install docker and docker-compose from packages from their official repos, no need to install from source. After adding your user to the docker group you need to re-login, and reboot may be unnecessary.
Great video. I thought your "how to" was great. You didn't go too fast and explained what you were doing and why! Which is better than 90% of the other Linux "how to videos" on TH-cam.
Thank you Matt! It's funny, I have SearXNG up an running, but I only use it for my development projects(API endpoint returning JSON). I had trouble getting it to work behind Traefik so I haven't used it for my personal search needs. I learned a lot from this video and I'm super excited to start using all the cool customization features!
Curious about how it actually works and how its making use of the crawled indexes of all these... Is it just a wrapper sending your query to all the selected engines and they still profile you even if you don't see the ads?
the searchx should act independently (at least in theory), meaning that the search engine will "see" your instance of searx and there isn't much to be seen on a server - this should eliminate a lot of telemetric data, such as your browser, screen resolution, os and other metrics, that they normally collect. The one thing I'm not sure how is handled is the let's say Google ID - does Searx always delete it per session so there is no tracking, or it stays so search engines, mostly Google - knows which queries come from the same place (IP) - that I'm not sure about.
Excellent episode! You also gave a walk through for configuring a docker container. Here's the quandary. If I do a search through a searxng container, presumably Google sees the request coming from my WAN IP, just as if I do the search from my host. How does the container anonymize my searches?
You can install docker-compose on newer versions of Ubuntu/Debian/Mint without needing to compile from source, just checked on both Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and 24.04 LTS, and the package is on their repos
I use Searx for a year or so, but do not host it myself. From time to time I hop between instances of my choice. It's not ideal, but good enough for me. Maybe I'll host it myself too someday.
It’s funny you did this video cause I was literally just looking at this again not even 5min ago before I walked into the living room and opened TH-cam.
This video is too focused on the steps. No idea what your trying to do. Just give a high level overview first, and then go through the steps. I can't follow this video. I know how to work Linux machine and docker.
OMG! "Stick it to Google?" For a guy on a TH-cam channel, your concern about Google seems a little disingenuous. Nevertheless, the video is well done and interesting. Not sure who it's for; obviously new users will be glassy-eyed about now.
If there is no incentive for people to create websites, because of LLMs making it unnecessary to visit websites, then where will future LLM searches get their information?
Help support the channel and get a weekly exclusive podcast! patreon.com/thelinuxcast
==== Time Stamps ====
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:29 Installation of Searx
00:01:38 Docker and Docker-Compose
00:04:29 Portainer
00:08:40 Installing Searx in Portainer
00:15:31 Taking a Look at Searx
00:20:16 Wrapping Up
On Ubuntu and other non-rolling distros you can install docker and docker-compose from packages from their official repos, no need to install from source. After adding your user to the docker group you need to re-login, and reboot may be unnecessary.
Great video. I thought your "how to" was great. You didn't go too fast and explained what you were doing and why! Which is better than 90% of the other Linux "how to videos" on TH-cam.
Thank you Matt! It's funny, I have SearXNG up an running, but I only use it for my development projects(API endpoint returning JSON). I had trouble getting it to work behind Traefik so I haven't used it for my personal search needs. I learned a lot from this video and I'm super excited to start using all the cool customization features!
Curious about how it actually works and how its making use of the crawled indexes of all these... Is it just a wrapper sending your query to all the selected engines and they still profile you even if you don't see the ads?
the searchx should act independently (at least in theory), meaning that the search engine will "see" your instance of searx and there isn't much to be seen on a server - this should eliminate a lot of telemetric data, such as your browser, screen resolution, os and other metrics, that they normally collect.
The one thing I'm not sure how is handled is the let's say Google ID - does Searx always delete it per session so there is no tracking, or it stays so search engines, mostly Google - knows which queries come from the same place (IP) - that I'm not sure about.
Matt doing a HOW-TO video, LOVE IT!!
Excellent episode! You also gave a walk through for configuring a docker container.
Here's the quandary. If I do a search through a searxng container, presumably Google sees the request coming from my WAN IP, just as if I do the search from my host. How does the container anonymize my searches?
was waiting for this, great video!
Interesting. I might try that. On another note, you are the second youtuber I've heard calling the slash sign backslash. Is that an American thing?
Fab Matt got it now too also docker is something Ive been meaning to start exploring too!
Dang it, I love you Matt! I needed this, at just the right time! Thank you.
Great video, many thanks!
This looks great. Is there a plugin to search multiple budget friendly media sites like Kodi for android?
You can install docker-compose on newer versions of Ubuntu/Debian/Mint without needing to compile from source, just checked on both Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and 24.04 LTS, and the package is on their repos
I use Searx for a year or so, but do not host it myself. From time to time I hop between instances of my choice. It's not ideal, but good enough for me. Maybe I'll host it myself too someday.
It’s funny you did this video cause I was literally just looking at this again not even 5min ago before I walked into the living room and opened TH-cam.
This video is too focused on the steps. No idea what your trying to do. Just give a high level overview first, and then go through the steps. I can't follow this video. I know how to work Linux machine and docker.
OMG! "Stick it to Google?" For a guy on a TH-cam channel, your concern about Google seems a little disingenuous. Nevertheless, the video is well done and interesting. Not sure who it's for; obviously new users will be glassy-eyed about now.
Web Search Engines are dead, long live LLMs.
If there is no incentive for people to create websites, because of LLMs making it unnecessary to visit websites, then where will future LLM searches get their information?
@@ShaneSemler other llms kek
I'm using searxng daily and its really good 😁