Whoogle vs Google
Whoogle is a meta search engine that interfaces to Google. Unlike the latter, Whoogle removes all tracking done via cookies and JavaScript. The interface resembles Google’s one.
Since Whoogle is FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) you can self-host it. Setting it up with docker-compose is straight forward. The only thing you need to do is to change the listening port.
In this video I show you all the above, how to set it up using Apache as reverse proxy and a (very) shallow comparison of elements stored in the browser while using Whoogle and Google.
Links
– Whoogle: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search
– docker-compose file: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/main/docker-compose.yml
– Apache reverse proxy file: https://codeberg.org/frnmst/solve-computer-science-extras/src/branch/master/software-tips/whoogle-vs-google/whoogle.conf
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:35 Shallow comparison with Searx, another meta-search engine
0:58 Whoogle features
1:45 Discussion of the docker-compose file for Whoogle
2:16 Shallow speed comparison between a self-hosted instance of Whoohle and google.com
3:31 Privacy comparison: tracking elements and cookies
5:00 Adding Whoogle as default search engine
5:34 Whoogle’s search options
6:34 Whoogle’s reverse proxy configuration for Apache derived from the Nginx one provided in the repository
8:23 Outro
#search #whoogle #google #metasearch #searchengine
by Solve Computer Science
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