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
Whoa, I went from “Hmm. We already have meta search engine aggregator at home. Do we really need a new one?” to “Whoa, that is pretty! Ughh… but is that AI that im seeing?! loads Wowee that is just a snippet from Wikipedia and various other places!!! It also shows me where the results are coming from. This is really cool! The user interface is copied over but there is no harm in that, its super clean” in like 0.0001 seconds!
I like it alot and will be trying it out. I like that it is more transparent where results are coming from compared to DDG.
Just no a fan of the name, but its just the project it looks like its white label enough to make your own “CI”. And I would definitely not have come up with a better one.
Also like your take on AI, I have a similar stance, very sensible.
Haha this gave me a good chuckle!
Thank you for liking it, and I agree about the name, which is why I had a poll out to change it and to my surprise the vast majority of the community voted to keep it as is 😆