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About searx
Searx is a metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing information about its users.
Why use Searx?
- Maybe Searx won’t offer you as personalised results as Google, but it doesn't make a profile about you
- Searx doesn't care about what you search, never shares anything with a third party, and it can't be used to compromise you
- Searx doesn't make money on ads and it isn't customised based on your interests. You get the pure search results
- Searx is a free software, the code is 100% open and you can help to make it better. See more on github
If you do care about privacy, want to be a conscious user, moreover believe in digital freedom, make Searx your default search engine or run it on your own server
Technical details - How does it work?
Searx is a metasearch engine,
inspired by the seeks project.
It provides basic privacy by mixing your queries with searches on other platforms without storing search data. Queries are made using a POST request on every browser (except chrome*). Therefore they don't show up in our logs, neither in your url history. In case of Chrome* users there is an exception, Searx uses the search bar to perform GET requests.
Searx can be added to your browser's search bar, moreover it can be set as the default search engine.
How can I have my own?
Searx appreciates your suspicion regarding logs, so take the code and run it yourself!
Add your Searx to this list to help other people to have privacy and make the Internet freer!
The more decentralized the Internet is the more freedom we have!
FAQ
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
Don't forget to restart searx after config edit!
Installation/WSGI support?
See the installation and setup wiki page
How to debug engines?
Stats page contains some useful data about the used engines.