Ever wanted your own search engine that you can host, control and make sure your searches are not leaked or recorded?. Then it is time to check Jive Search.

Jive Search is a free, open-source search self-hosted search engine that you can run on your machine or server. The app is written using the Go programming language for better performance.

It comes with a wide range of features and options,

Features

  • Core Search Results & Distributed Crawler
  • Supports several languages and regions
  • Supports Proxy Links
  • Comes with a built-in private safe search
  • Currently, supports only Yandex API for search results
  • Autocomplete search phrases
  • Instant answers
  • Built-in image search

Supported instant answers

  • Birthstone, camel case, characters, coin toss, frequency, POTUS, prime, random, reverse, stats, user agent, etc.
  • Breach (a.k.a. have i been pwned)
  • Discography/Music albums
  • Economic stats (GDP, population)
  • Flight Info & Status
  • JavaScript-based answers
  • Basic calculator
  • Mortgage, financial and other calculators
  • CSS/JavaScript/JSON/etc minified and prettified
  • Converters (foreign exchange, meters to feet, mb to gb, etc...)
  • Maps
  • Nutrition
  • Package Tracking (UPS, FedEx, USPS, etc...)
  • Shopping
  • Stack Overflow
  • Stock Quotes & Charts
  • Weather
  • WHOIS
  • Wikipedia summary
  • Wikidata answers (how tall is, birthday, etc.)
  • Wikiquote
  • Wiktionary

Tech stack

  • Go programming language

License

Jive Search is released under the Apache-2.0 License

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