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About searx
Searx is a metasearch engine inspired by the seeks-project.
It tries to provide basic privacy by mixing your queries with those from others while avoiding storing search data. For all browsers (except chrom*) queries are made using a POST request. Thus they don't show up in our logs, nor in your url history. For Chrom* users there is an exception, searx is used from the search bar, it issues GET requests.
You can add it to your browsers search bar and even make it your default search engine.
What makes searx different
- No ads - searx is Free Software (free-as-in-freedom), funded by your donations
- Privacy - tries to minimalize the digital footprint of the searches
- Optionally self hosted - see the FAQ
- Easy to add new engines/categories
Engines
{% for (categ,search_engines) in categs %}{{ categ.capitalize() }}
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{% for search_engine in search_engines %}
{% if not search_engine.private %}
- {{ search_engine.name }} {% endif %} {% endfor %}
Please add more engines to this list, pull requests are welcome!
Running public instances
FAQ
Trust
It's ok if you don't trust us regarding the logs, take the code and run it yourself! decentralize!
How to add to firefox?
Install searx as a search engine on any version of Firefox! (javascript required)
Developer FAQ
New engines?
- Edit your engines.cfg, see sample config
- Create your custom engine module, check the example engine
WSGI support?
Okhin wrote a great and detailed article about the setup.
How to debug engines?
Stats page contains some useful data about the used engines.