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Whoogle-Search: New Meta-Search-Engine for Google #2007

Open dngray opened 1 year ago

dngray commented 1 year ago

Discussed in https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/discussions/177

Originally posted by **astier** October 8, 2021 [whoogle-search](https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search) is a self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine. Get Google search results, but without any ads, javascript, AMP links, cookies, or IP address tracking. Easily deployable in one click as a Docker app, and customizable with a single config file. Quick and simple to implement as a primary search engine replacement on both desktop and mobile. - No ads or sponsored content - No javascript - No cookies - No tracking/linking of your personal IP address\* - No AMP links - No URL tracking tags (i.e. utm=%s) - No referrer header - Tor and HTTP/SOCKS proxy support - Autocomplete/search suggestions - POST request search and suggestion queries (when possible) - View images at full res without site redirect (currently mobile only) - Dark mode - Randomly generated User Agent - Easy to install/deploy - DDG-style bang (i.e. `! `) searches - Optional location-based searching (i.e. results near \) - Optional NoJS mode to disable all Javascript in results *If deployed to a remote server, or configured to send requests through a VPN, Tor, proxy, etc. Whoogle is intended to only ever be deployed to private instances by individuals of any background (although public instances exist), with as little effort as possible. Prior knowledge of/experience with the command line or deploying applications is not necessary to deploy Whoogle, which isn't the case with Searx. As a result, Whoogle is missing some features of Searx in order to be as easy to deploy as possible. Whoogle also only uses Google search results, not Bing/Quant/etc, and uses the existing Google search UI to make the transition away from Google search as unnoticeable as possible. I have been using it for a couple of days and it was easy to install, configure, works reliable, gives good results and looks good.
dngray commented 1 year ago

I think this would require us to have https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/issues/1686

A more polished method of using Google without JavaScript I think is worthwhile.

I-I-IT commented 5 months ago

The issue I see here is that we already have Startpage, so what does this bring new to the table ? How can it support TOR while Google captchas all requests from TOR ?

privacyguides-bot commented 3 months ago

This issue has been mentioned on Privacy Guides. There might be relevant details there:

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/startpage-has-apparently-started-to-fingerprint-users/18434/31