Thank you for such patient and rich response. I didn&#x27;t realize that&#x27;s how SearXNG works.Fully agree with you that mobile experience is the highlight of your project. It feels... not present. They way it should be - clean, intuitive and focused on results, not the tool.It really makes me want to add it to things I self host.

Glad for your review!About the source of the search results, both text and images, they&#x27;re all from [SearXNG](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;searxng&#x2F;searxng&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;searxng&#x2F;searxng&#x2F;</a>).&gt; SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.SearXNG by itself offers a full-stack platform for you to run searches privately (you can find public instances at &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;searx.space&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;searx.space&#x2F;</a>&gt;, and easily host yourself [via docker](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;searxng&#x2F;searxng-docker">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;searxng&#x2F;searxng-docker</a>)).About how they scrape other search engines, it&#x27;s really simple: HTTP calls and parsing of HTML (for most of them).In MiniSearch, I don&#x27;t need to save the results by myself. The scrape is done in real-time by SearXNG and passed to MiniSearch, which in turn runs a similarity search and filters out the textual results that don&#x27;t seem that useful.But I can say the real differential of MiniSearch is that it&#x27;s mobile-first. Since the beginning, it was made to run on the browsers of Chrome&#x2F;Safari&#x2F;Firefox Mobile, and [Wllama](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ngxson&#x2F;wllama">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ngxson&#x2F;wllama</a>) together with [Web-LLM](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mlc-ai&#x2F;web-llm">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mlc-ai&#x2F;web-llm</a>), along with LLMs of &lt;1B parameters, allowed it!If you&#x27;re curious, here&#x27;s the HN post I made about it a year ago:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37885752">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37885752</a>

It looks nice, I&#x27;m positively surprised by search results I got on demo page. Ai response is more or less similar to what I&#x27;m used to, graphics contain YouTube thumbnails from videos that are super related to the topic I asked (one that took me a while to stumble upon, but is a huge knowledge source), text results are decent...I never looked into private&#x2F;selfhosted search. 
How does such service gather data from web? What&#x27;s the original source, who does scrapping and how do you update it?

MiniSearch is celebrating its 1st birthday!Exactly one year ago, I shared the initial version of this side-project here. Since then, there have been numerous changes under the hood. I use it daily as my default search engine and have done my best to make it useful. I hope it&#x27;s interesting for you too!

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