SearXNG settings template for LLM web search?

Posted by MufasaSaylum@reddit | LocalLLaMA | View on Reddit | 3 comments

I recently self-hosted SearXNG to add web searches to my setup, but I'm finding that I get a lot of junk results. E.g., with the prompt "What does MCP mean?" it returns a link to the word "does" in the dictionary lol. Does anyone have a good template of settings to use, or any advice/recommendations? Thanks!

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R_Duncan@reddit

Is SearXNG still useful now that we have web-search and duckduckgo search mcp? Which advantages it has against them, given that you have to install much, much more on your machine?

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awitod@reddit

My experience is that it is the Bing provider with the issue. Bing is a nasty piece of work.

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Diecron@reddit

I have been using this:

github.com/ihor-sokoliuk/mcp-searxng

it works very well and the web page scraper built in is handy for simple sites, else the AI can figure out a better way to parse.