I promise I'll explain what Fess is in a later post. I want to get this information out there in preparation.

If you haven't used Searx before, it's a self-hosted meta-search engine which queries a wide array of search engines (some of which are also self-hosted), collates the search results, and returns them as a regular search result page, an RSS feed, or a JSON API.

One of the lesser known features is that you can add your own search engines. You can either write your own (using an existing one as a template) or you can leverage one of …