srchd

srchd

10 second pitch: srchd is a privacy-respecting metasearch engine written in Go. Search several search engines at once without switching tabs, and reap the benefits of (occasionally) better results.

Note: The canonical repository is located at https://git.sr.ht/~cmcevoy/srchd. A mirror exists on GitHub.

Rationale

Search engines of today are a far cry from what they used to be. I find it hard at times to find exactly what I am looking for, and often I would jump across two or three different search engines to find what I am looking for. This is no fun.

Naturally, I became a user of SearxNG for a period of time, however I found it hard to run on my memory constrained servers and configuration is complicated. Though, I can vouch for its usefulness, it's a great piece of software.

I set out to replace SearxNG with something a bit lighter (and to satisfy my NIH syndrome) and srchd is the result. I started using it as my primary search engine about two weeks after I started working on it and haven't looked back.

Running

Get up and going in under 30 seconds (provided your machine is moderately fast): Ensure you have Go installed and run go run git.sr.ht/~cmcevoy/srchd@latest.

From this repository, you can use the usual Go commands to build and run binaries. Simply use go build . to build a binary that holds all of the resources it needs to run within itself, or go run . to run the code right out of this repository.

An example configuration file can be found at ./docs/config.yaml.example and documentation at ./docs/config.md.

Search engine support

srchd is a young project and as such doesn't have a lot of support.

• Bing (likely broken, disabled by default)
• DuckDuckGo
• Google
• Mediawiki (e.g. Wikipedia, requires configuration)
• Yahoo
• wiby.me (native API)