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Add to SafariWhen comparing Searx vs Ambar, the Slant community recommends Ambar for most people. In the question“What are the best self-hosted search engines?” Ambar is ranked 2nd while Searx is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Ambar is:
User-friendly web interface with realtime statistics, intuitive administrative tools and REST API. Integrate with any system without reading endless manuals.
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Pros
Pro Extremely customisable
Since you have access to all the .yaml files, you can easily modify it to your needs.
Pro Can add many search engines
Have a vast choice for choosing search engines
Pro Can use a proxy
Using a proxy called Morty hides the IP address of the user
Pro Most Private Search engine
Since it can be hosted on your own server/ computer, it is very private, nothing leaves your computer.
No cookies or ads too
Pro Very fast
Since it is a Python program with a web interface, it's very very fast even on a poor internet connection
Pro Supports instant answers
Uses Google and Bing, and hence has the 'quick answers' feature of both the search engines.
Pro Simple Interaction
User-friendly web interface with realtime statistics, intuitive administrative tools and REST API. Integrate with any system without reading endless manuals.
Pro Instant Search
Language-analyzed full-text search including fuzzy queries, phrases and metadata search. Done in milliseconds, no matter how many documents indexed or how complexed query is.
Pro Reliable Engine
Multi-source document collection and deduplication. Smart document content retrieval and indexing for any file type. Horizontally scalable to petabytes of data and billions of documents.
Cons
Con Not very mobile friendly
Needs WSL2 for windows, and works natively on macOS and Linux
But no support for Android or iOS
