Ask HN: What's the best metasearch engine?

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What kind of metasearch?

For web metasearch, DuckDuckGo has taken the crown from Metacrawler, and is easily the best thing out there.

As for the rest... I don't know.

try http://searx.me/ it is open source, also available as a docker instance.

besides web interface it also offers RSS, CSV and JSON api. supports about 10 search engines.

you can query it in curl or write a simple api client with rest-client