https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx

Searx (/sɜːrks/) is a free metasearch engine, available under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, with the aim of protecting the privacy of its users. To this end, Searx does not share users' IP addresses or search history with the search engines from which it gathers results. Tracking cookies served by the search engines are blocked, preventing user-profiling-based results modification. By default, Searx queries are submitted via HTTP POST, to prevent users' query keywords from appearing in webserver logs. Searx was inspired by the Seeks project, though it does not implement Seeks' peer-to-peer user-sourced results ranking.

Each search result is given as a direct link to the respective site, rather than a tracked redirect link as used by Google. In addition, when available, these direct links are accompanied by "cached" and/or "proxied" links that allow viewing results pages without actually visiting the sites in question. The "cached" links point to saved versions of a page on archive.org, while the "proxied" links allow viewing the current live page via a Searx-based web proxy. In addition to the general search, the engine also features tabs to search within specific domains: files, images, IT, maps, music, news, science, social media, and videos.

Along with the most well-known instance at searx.me, Searx also features dozens of user-run instances at their own URLs. A service called Searxes can be used to search a different random Searx instance with each query. Searx.me is also available as a Tor hidden service. A public API is available.

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/u/magnora7 /u/d3rr - Can you install Searx on SaidIt to be able to Searx or Seeks the comments? If it can't be installed then maybe it can be outstalled, such as in an external dedicated Searx site (SaidIt.search) that would interlink each other. Or maybe get one of the external Searx sites to scan the entire SaidIt site? If Google and DuckDuckGo suck, why not DIY?

I don't know if this is important to future plans and upgrade to SaidIt code, but it might be something to keep in mind - searching categories, classes, groups, subs, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searx#Search_engines_and_other_settings

Also:

Any user may run their own instance of Searx, which can be done to maximize privacy, to avoid congestion on public instances, to preserve customized settings even if browser cookies are cleared, to allow auditing of the source code being run, etc. Users may include their Searx instances on the editable list of all public instances, or keep them private. It is also possible to add custom search engines to a self-hosted instance that are not available on the public instances.

Maybe this is a way to tie into a federated archival/backup system. I'd be honoured to co-host a server box here though I'd need massive help setting it up. I'd even be happy never touching it and leaving it to be run remotely by you guys. But fair warning, I am always torrenting so maybe here isn't the best place, but there's a computer place around the corner that I think does some hosting. Failing that I could always find somewhere local or in the cloud if necessary. Though maybe being federated lets you off the hook for anything I might be doing near or with my own hub.