Alternative search engines and translation services about cerebro

[KELiON]

@tiagoamaro @phrohdoh @captainhook awesome! I'm going to add settings for core plugins, so users could disable, i.e. google

[phrohdoh]

@captainhook What is the status of a duckduckgo plugin?

[tiagoamaro]

@phrohdoh @captainhook just published https://github.com/tiagoamaro/cerebro-duck-duck-go. There's no result preview yet, but it's a bare minimum to replace default Google's results (as it always stays on top of it).

[bobblkabb]

Would be a blessing to have an easy option to include search engines just with a link.
I use metager, startpage and unbubble for instance..

[2br-2b]

I would love these as well! I use Brave Search. Due to the vast number of search engines, maybe there could be an option to add your own search engine?

[dubisdev]

Hi all!

I would love these as well! I use Brave Search. Due to the vast number of search engines, maybe there could be an option to add your own search engine?

This would be easy if all search providers were returning the same API response when requesting suggestions, but they are not. Each JSON response is structured different so they can not be processed.

An alternative solution to this could be creating a plugin that offers two different features:

Set two plugin settings: string and options fields using the plugins api.

1. If string field is empty, the plugin will use the selected engine in the options field. Providing suggestions and search functionality.
2. If string field is completed (with a search link like https://search.brave.com/api/suggest?q=) the plugin will use this to open the query, but won't be able to show suggestions.

By this way users whose engine is not listed can use their favourite engine. Meanwhile they can open an issue in the plugin repo so we know what engines are missing.

I'll start working on this soon.

[dubisdev]

Hi again!

@cerebroapp/search v1.0.0 has been released
https://github.com/cerebroapp/search/releases/tag/v1.0.0

This plugin includes support for Google, Brave, DuckDuckGo and Ecosia.
A custom search engine can be also added.

We have oppened a discussion there so anyone can comment what engines are missing.
https://github.com/cerebroapp/search/discussions/4

@oguhpereira we can close this issue

About translations: that issue is also related to an individual plugin and should not be here. If necessary, an issue can be oppened in one of these repos:

• https://github.com/cerebroapp/cerebro-skyeng
• https://github.com/cerebroapp/cerebro-yandex-translate