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

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dngray opened this issue Feb 18, 2023 · 3 comments
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Whoogle-Search: New Meta-Search-Engine for Google #2007

dngray opened this issue Feb 18, 2023 · 3 comments
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dngray commented Feb 18, 2023

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

Originally posted by astier October 8, 2021
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. !<tag> <query>) searches
  • Optional location-based searching (i.e. results near <city>)
  • 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.

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dngray commented Feb 18, 2023

I think this would require us to have #1686

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

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I-I-IT commented Mar 24, 2024

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 ?

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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

@dngray dngray removed the status:approved issues that are immediately approved, submit a PR! label Aug 5, 2024
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