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# 4get search
**4get** is a proxy search engine that doesn't suck.
## About 4get
https://4get.ca/about
## Official instance
https://4get.ca
## Totally unbiased comparison between alternatives
| | 4get | searx(ng) | librex | araa |
|----------------------------|-------------------------|-----------|-------------|-----------|
| RAM usage | 200-400mb~ | 2GB~ | 200-400mb~ | 2GB~ |
| Does it suck | no (debunked by snopes) | yes | yes | a little |
| Does it work | ye | sometimes | no | sometimes |
| Did the dev commit suicide | not until my 30s | no | allegedly | no |
## Features
1. Rotating proxies on a per-scraper basis
2. Search filters, which SearxNG lacks for the most part
3. Bot protection that *actually* filters out the bots (when configured)
4. Interface doesn't require javascript
5. Favicon fetcher with caching support & image proxy
6. Bunch of other shit
tl;dr the best way to actually browse for shit.
# Supported websites
| Web | Images | Videos | News | Music | Autocompleter |
|------------|--------------|------------|------------|------------|---------------|
| DuckDuckGo | DuckDuckGo | YouTube | DuckDuckGo | Soundcloud | Brave |
| Brave | Brave | DuckDuckGo | Brave | | DuckDuckGo |
| Yandex | Yandex | Brave | Google | | Yandex |
| Google | Google | Yandex | Startpage | | Google |
| Startpage | Startpage | Google | Qwant | | Startpage |
| Qwant | Qwant | Startpage | Mojeek | | Qwant |
| Yep | Yep | Qwant | | | Yep |
| Greppr | Imgur | | | | Marginalia |
| Crowdview | FindThatMeme | | | | YouTube |
| Mwmbl | | | | | Soundcloud |
| Mojeek | | | | | |
| Marginalia | | | | | |
| wiby | | | | | |
| Curlie | | | | | |
# Installation
Refer to the documentation index. I recommend following the apache2 guide.
## Contact
Shit breaks all the time but I repair it all the time too... Email me here: will (at) lolcat.ca or create an issue.
## License
AGPL