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web-search Search the public web through the self-hosted SearXNG at search.ops.io using bin/web/search. Use for German care law, SGB paragraphs, vendor documentation and any fact that is not in our own repos - and as the second independent source the detective method requires.

web-search

bin/web/search "LadybugDB vector index"
bin/web/search "model2vec multilingual" --category it
bin/web/search "hypervisor" --site ops.io --json | jq -r '.results[].url'
bin/web/search "postgres partial index" --lang en --fresh year

Web or knowledge base

bin/kb/search holds our own facts: the ops stack, portfolio, ssh hosts, the lexicon. Go there first. Reach for bin/web/search when the answer is outside our repos: upstream library behaviour, vendor documentation, public standards.

Keep the two apart. A finding is stronger when the reader can see that one source was ours and one was not.

PII: this query leaves the host

The search goes to external engines. Never put a client or staff identifier in it. The tool refuses long digit runs, Personalnummer, KV-Nr, dates of birth and street-with-number, and exits 2. Rephrase rather than reaching for --force.

Read the status, not just the results

The instance answers HTTP 200 with an empty list when it throttles, so an empty answer is ambiguous by construction. The tool resolves that for you:

status exit meaning
ok 0 engines answered
throttled 3 nobody answered; say nothing about what exists

Never turn a throttled result into "there is no information about X".

Etiquette

Calls are serialised host-wide and kept ten seconds apart, and answers are cached for seven days. Do not loop over queries, and do not use --refresh unless the cached answer is genuinely stale: a burst suspends the engines for several minutes for everyone.