fossq/README.md

FOSS-Q Search

FOSS-Q is a proxy search engine that works.

About FOSS-Q

https://fossq.com/about

Totally unbiased comparison between alternatives

	FOSS-Q	searx(ng)	FbIN-LibreY	araa	hearch.co
RAM usage	200-400mb~	2GB~	200-400mb~	2GB~	idk
Does it work	no (debunked by snopes)	yes	yes	a little	better than searx
Does it work	ye	sometimes	sometimes	sometimes	yes

Features

1. Rotating proxies on a per-scraper basis
2. Search filters, which SearxNG lacks for the most part
3. Bot protection that actually filters out the bots (when configured)
4. Interface doesn't require javascript
5. Favicon fetcher with caching support & image proxy
6. Bunch of other stuff

tl;dr FOSS-Q is the best way to browse for stuff.

Supported websites

Web	Images	Videos	News	Music	Autocompleter
DuckDuckGo	DuckDuckGo	YouTube	DuckDuckGo	Soundcloud	Brave
Brave	Brave	Sepia Search	Brave		DuckDuckGo
Yandex	Yandex	DuckDuckGo	Google		Yandex
Google	Google	Brave	Startpage		Google
Startpage	Startpage	Yandex	Qwant		Startpage
Qwant	Qwant	Google	Mojeek		Kagi
Ghostery	Yep	Startpage	Baidu		Qwant
Yep	Baidu	Qwant			Ghostery
Greppr	Pinterest	Baidu			Yep
Crowdview	500px	Coc Coc			Marginalia
Mwmbl	VSCO				YouTube
Mojeek	Imgur				Soundcloud
Baidu	FindThatMeme
Coc Coc
Marginalia
wiby
Curlie

Installation

Refer to the documentation index. I recommend following the apache2 guide.

Contact

Stuff breaks all the time but I repair it all the time too. Email me here: dev(at)flossboxin(dot)org(dot)in or create an issue.

License

AGPL