--- title: search results suck right now, use THIS instead | daily.dev description: Meta search engines aggregate results from multiple search providers and rerank them, helping filter out low-quality content. SearXNG is an open-source,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/rehwwbjcx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: search results suck right now, use THIS instead | daily.dev og:description: Meta search engines aggregate results from multiple search providers and rerank them, helping filter out low-quality content. SearXNG is an open-source,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/rehwwbjcx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rEHWWbjcX.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # search results suck right now, use THIS instead **[Syntax](https://daily.dev/sources/syntax)** · [@cjr](https://daily.dev/cjr) · 10 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Meta search engines aggregate results from multiple search providers and rerank them, helping filter out low-quality content. SearXNG is an open-source, self-hostable meta search engine that can run locally via Docker, searches across Google, DuckDuckGo, Brave, and others, supports bang commands, and strips tracking cookies for privacy. It can be set as a default browser search engine, integrated with AI tools via MCP servers through its JSON API, and powers Perplexica, an open-source Perplexity alternative that combines web search with AI summarization. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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