Overview
SearXNG is a self-hosted meta-search engine aggregating results from 70+ sources (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc.). Requires a local SearXNG instance reachable at SEARXNG_URL (default: http://localhost:8080). Free, no external API key.
When to Choose It
- Broad web coverage without a specific platform focus
- News and current events research
- Fallback when other channels return insufficient results
How To Search
POST/GET to $SEARXNG_URL/search?q=<query>&format=json.
Quality Bar
- Evidence items have non-empty title and url.
- No crash on empty or malformed API response.
- Source channel field matches the channel name.