I deployed whoogle search at home. For laptops it is rather easy to define it as the default search for alfred and the respective browser, but for iOS devices I have not found a way (except some rather clunky and intrusive extensions) to change the default search engine beyond what Apple tells you. Is there a way to to this via pfSense or pihole? So whenever someone searches in the address bar in safari on iOS... Source: about 1 year ago

I host an instance of Whoogle Search that I use and never looked back. It's like someone brought Google back to the golden age. No (direct) tracking, no ads, complete control over the results. Source: about 1 year ago

You know what this community needs? Our own community whoogle server. Source: over 1 year ago

Whoogle for the win; https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search. Source: over 1 year ago

I use whoogle with still uses Google under the hood but strips any PII out of the requests, I also run mine on a publicly hosted server. Source: over 1 year ago

Re: iOS Safari default search conundrum: You could use something like Launch Center Pro[1] to pass queries to your search URL in Safari. Minor convention change (eg. Initiate search from LC vs. Directly in Safari) but it's still at least one less step. [1: https://contrast.co/launch-center-pro/]. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago