Engineering
SearXNG vs DuckDuckGo for Agent Search
For local agent workflows, the search backend is a dependency, not the whole product. The agent still needs crawling, extraction, ranking, chunk selection, and prompt assembly.
SearXNG is a good default when you want a self-hosted metasearch service and predictable JSON responses. DuckDuckGo HTML fallback can be useful for simple setups, but HTML search pages are less stable and can fail under automated access.
TinySearch defaults to SearXNG in its bundled Docker setup. That keeps the local stack reproducible while still leaving room to configure fallback behavior.