This appears to be a key tool for providing search to local models.

I'm curious what setups folks use to provide this functionality.

Since the quantized 24B parameter Gemma model came out, I've had good luck with tool calling on a 4070 Ti Super.

Successful tool calling is what finally made the local experience useful.

I should note this is for the general and not coding specific context.

It works well if you connect it the Brave Search API, but using it a scraper is fairly unreliable. Google stopped working a few days ago.

Yeah, I find that searx results are way more relevant to what I’m actually looking for than a single engine. There’s so much manipulation going on that if you don’t aggregate multiple engines, it’s near impossible to get what you want.

I've been using SearXNG for a few years now, however I've been trying out Degoog as a SearXNG alternative since I've had issues with engines constantly failing or being slow since day 1 of using SearXNG, but Degoog has worse results with the same engines. It's a shame since I'm having to pick between slower but better results, or very fast but worse results.

Years of regular use here, has been great even before I started using it as an agent tool.

TinySearch wraps this and works well for agents. It's better than the native SearXNG MCP because it optimizes the context before it even gets to the agent so as to not waste tokens.

https://github.com/MarcellM01/TinySearch

I've been using this for some projects. It's exceptional and I recommend it highly.

I actually included a recipe to deploy it to kubernetes in typekro, my TypeScript infrastructure-as-code project for kubernetes: https://typekro.run/api/searxng/

I've been self hosting this as my default engine across all of my searches for a few years now. I can't recommend it more highly.

I have used SearXNG hosts like https://searx.be/ but stick with Brave search for the most part. Are there other good hosts people tend to use?

Been a fan of searX for a while. Not sure if this is the same thing but there were plenty of hosted versions too.

I prefer 4get.

how do i configure which specific search engines SearXNG pulls its results from? Can we extend it to onyl search Stack Overflow and GitHub