

Assuming you do have a place to host it (even at home on your PC, or an old PC, not necessarily reachable from the internet), and assuming you know a bit about docker, it’s quite easy actually.
Where it all started for me: https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker
Note that the example above in the beginner variant uses Caddy as a webserver which - by default - assumes you’re running it on a server that can be publicly reached from the internet and won’t start up correctly otherwise - e.g. at home - unless you change some config.
Rare moment when Google is mentioned as behaving GDPR compliant… I mean, I know that big tech is vacuuming up all data and doesn’t care about GDPR, but still… You can be worse than effing Google?