SearXNG
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SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Arch Linux
- Fedora
- Ubuntu
- Debian
- Docker
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Cloudron
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
- Support for Themes
Features
- Meta-Search
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
- Dark Mode
- Decentralized
- Self-hosted search
- No registration required
- No Logs
Tags
- can-be-self-hosted
- no-user-profiling
- no-user-tracking
- Search Engine
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What is SearXNG?
Differences to searx
SearXNG is a fork of [searx]. Here are some of the changes:
User experience
- Huge update of the simple theme:
- usable on desktop, tablet and mobile
- light and dark versions (you can choose in the preferences)
- support right-to-left languages
- [see the screenshots]
- the translations are up to date, you can contribute on [Weblate]
- the preferences page has been updated:
- you can see which engines are reliable or not
- engines are grouped inside each tab
- each engine has a description
- thanks to the anonymous metrics, it is easier to report a bug of an engine and thus engines get fixed more quickly
- if you don't want any metrics to be recorded, you can [disable them on the server]
- administrator can [block and/or replace the URLs in the search results]
Setup
- the Docker image is now also built for ARM64 and ARM/v7 architectures
- you don't need [Morty] to proxy the images even on a public instance
- you get a well maintained Docker image, now also built for ARM64 and ARM/v7 architectures
- up to date installation scripts
Contributing is easier
- readable debug log
- contributions to the themes are made easier, check out our [Development Quickstart] guide
- a lot of code cleanup and bug fixes
- the dependencies are up to date
SearXNG information
Developed by
SearXNGLicensing
Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.1Alternatives
104 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- French
- German
- Catalan; Valencian
- Chinese
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Finnish
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Arabic
- Norwegian Bokmål
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Comments and Reviews
!bangs + privacy + proxy
online instances of SearXNG: searx.space Instance audit: searchengine.party
Runs smooth on my selfhosted server. Has many features.
So basically, I see a bunch of "instances" which are like a bunch of search engines, and apparently you can make your own. I compared 2 instances and they seemed the same except one displayed icons and the other didn't. There are CSS differences. As with anything I've found other than Google, there won't be up-to-the-minute news.
Even calling it a "metasearch engine" is a bit misleading, since Searx/SearxNG is just a wrapper/aggregator that calls other 'real' search engines, so it's not an engine itself, not in the same sense of the word. And those other engines of course will not be too happy about having their resources used while all their ads get hidden in this way, so they will try to detect if you're doing this and block you, after which your Searx/SearxNG will stop working, or end up returning way fewer results until it becomes useless.
A fork of a great search engine
Free and open source.