Setting up a personal SearXNG instance on a small VPS: privacy-respecting metasearch without the cloud lock-in

Laptop screen displaying a search results page on a wooden desk — photo by cottonbro on Pexels

Google still has the best results for some queries. DuckDuckGo is fine for most of them. Kagi is excellent if you want to pay $10/month. But there’s a fourth option that gets oddly little airtime: SearXNG — a self-hosted metasearch …