Goosle version 1.7 adds new search engines and includes a lot of tweaks and little improvements. Mojeek and Pixabay are now available as search engines. Pixabay is especially interesting because they provide high quality photos and have a large database. You’ll need an access token, check out the readme file for setup instructions.
More and better meta information for Magnet results to give you better insights in what you’re downloading. As well as an improved NSFW filter for Magnet search.
Recently pagination got added to results, this allows for more results to be gathered. All limits and result amounts have been tweaked to better reflect this. This is most visible in Image results.
Search object
To centralize the processing of search queries a Search Object was added in a recent update. This has been expanded to also include the safe search override as well as the image search size override. This standardizes the information going around inside Goosle a lot making things more predictable and efficient.
Theme tweaks
Various layout and formatting tweaks are included, a few more pixels to space things out here. A few icons there. Some margins adjusted, etc. Overall these are minor changes but it should be more pleasing on the eyes to use Goosle. If you notice missing icons, or misaligned elements like paragraphs being too close together, clear your browser cache.
Changes in version 1.7 released on August 7, 2024
- NOTICE: config.default.php has changed, update your config.php!!
- [new] Mojeek search results
- [new] Pixabay Image results (Requires free API key, see installation instructions)
- [new] Keyword multiplier for result ranking
- [new] Web search can be turned off
- [new] Cache News results for an hour only, regardless of the cache setting
- [new] Dynamic SEO description for results page (Should be visible when sharing the page)
- [new] ‘Verified’ label for magnet results where supported
- [update] Added x.com for social media detection
- [update] Added more keywords for nsfw detection in magnet results
- [change] Raised Qwant Images limit from 50 to 150
- [change] Raised Hackernews and Qwant News limit from 30 to 50
- [change] Lowered Wikipedia results from 10 to maximum 5
- [change] Replaced ‘porn’ with ‘nsfw’ for safe search switch
- [change] Removed ‘xxx’ as an keyword to disable safe search
- [change] Don’t search on nyaa.si and YTS if you search with safemode off
- [change] Moved image size override into search object
- [change] Added a little space between rows for image results on mobile
- [change] Stats font is now ‘Courier’
- [fix] Google search query not providing good results
- [fix] Search query not always properly urlencoded
- [removed] Removed search suggestions as they didn’t work
Try Goosle for yourself
You can try Goosle for yourself and set up your own search engine in only a few minutes. I’ve made the source code available on Github. https://github.com/adegans/Goosle
Goosle works on most modern servers that have PHP7.4 or newer and should take less than 10 minutes to install and set up. All you need is basic webhosting and a domain name. Check the included readme.md or the Github page for setup details.
Getting help
You can post your questions on Github as a discussion.
