Hi all, been a while since I posted the degoog beta, been head down working on all my apps.
Some of you may know me for Jotty and Cronmaster on top of degoog, hi friends!
- You can find the core repo here: https://github.com/degoog-org/degoog
- The official extensions repo here: https://github.com/degoog-org/official-extensions
- And a little showcase of community made extensions: https://degoog-org.github.io/community-extensions/
Degoog is a search aggregator meant to be plug and play, the app itself is extremely light (about 50mb to 70mb ram usage whilst idle, biggest spike I’ve seen recently has been about 100mb in usage), and then there’s a very comprehensive extension system where you can create engines, plugins and transports (transports are the way I’ve named systems to fetch data, headless browsers, curl alternatives and so on).
The app has been in beta for a while and today I’ve released the first stable beta, so I’d love to re-announce it here and get at bit more feedback. Next post I’ll make will be once it’s out of beta and fully stable, trying to not spam this too much.
Little quick history for anyone who hasn’t seen the first post, this was born from my PERSONAL gripes with searxng (no shades, the internet is beautiful because it’s vary), can’t say my project is better, it’s too new to say that, but it works more for my personal preferences and hopefully it resonates with some of you too.
Let’s talk about AI usage like adults please
This is NOT vibecoded, it’s not AI driven and it’s NOT some slop put together in 5 minutes. Some people here know me, they know I maintain my projects, I code myself and I have been a software engineer for many many years.
I actually have rejected pull requests that were very obviously vibecoded (p.s. fucking hilarious if you check the CLAUDE.md file in the repo, the PRs were riddled with these comments I force in there).
That said I obviously make some use of AI, it’s 2026, dunno what you all expect, open source however is my way to escaping how my day job REQUIRES me to use AI, so it’s only used for stuff I can’t be bothered to do (e.g. repetitive boring tasks, documentations, tests and heavy debugging). If you have issues with this please go tell a carpenter to use a manual screwdriver and not a power drill and see if they say yes or throw it at you, thank you <3
I’ve installed this on my home server and I must say, I am quite impressed!
It just feels so much snappier than SearXNG, I think the loading “animation” helps with that a lot. I also love the whole plugin system, there is already a lot available, maybe in the future, if I have a good idea, I will make one myself.
I was a bit skeptical about the AI thing at first, but at least you are transparent about it and your stance seems to be reasonable.
If you want some suggestions on what to work on in the future, it would be cool, if there was a search suggestion api URL, I could add to Firefox to have search suggestions in my address bar. Also maybe bangs to only search with a certain engine, like in SearXNG.
Thank you for all the work you already put into this, looking forward to future updates!
Hey! First of all thank you for the feedback <3 Secondly both of these are already present :)
You can type
!helpto see all bangs that come by default and there’s a section of the docs (on the index of the docs) on how to use the search suggestion api for firefox or any browser that’s compatible with it!Any interest in implementing the “double bang” thing that SearxNG does? I find it super useful - I have degoog and SearxNG, and the “double bang” is the reason I still have SearxNG as the default.
Ehm… it really was a quick quick plugin to make, it’s in the official store <3
Hey that should be extremely easy to achieve with a third party extension, I may make one at some point, really wouldn’t take long :)
Oh, that worked, thank you!
Maybe you could implement the search suggestions URL into the OpenSearch (because at least when I added it via right click add search engine, it only added the search URL), but that could be an error on my part.
Also, I am just curious, where do you get the search suggestions from? Do you just query one of the engines?
Well for search suggestions it aggregates google and ddg, proxied if you have proxies setup, at the moment there’s no way to integrate to it YET, that’s something I’m looking into!
I thought suggestion worked with right click, I may have messed that up, I’ll admit, opensearch has an extremely confusing system and it feels a little clunky to implement, it took me a while to figure it out, so I’ll likely admit is my fault rather than yours haha