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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.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • International

Platforms

  • Linux
  • Online
  • Arch Linux
  • Fedora
  • Ubuntu
  • Debian
  • Docker  See [https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker](https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker) and [https://github.com/searxng/searxng-helm-chart](https://github.com/searxng/searxng-helm-chart)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Self-Hosted
4.3 / 5 Avg rating (15)
95likes
8comments
0news articles

Features

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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Lightweight
  3.  Support for Themes

Features

  1.  Meta-Search
  2.  Ad-free
  3.  No Tracking
  4.  Dark Mode
  5.  Self-hosted search
  6.  Decentralized
  7.  No registration required
  8.  No Logs

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  • EmilE1337 liked SearXNG
    2 days ago
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    Danilo_Venom added SearXNG as alternative to Peekr
    4 days ago
  • niksavc liked SearXNG
    9 days ago
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    POX added SearXNG as alternative to Waterfox Private Search
    12 days ago
  • TheJNXx, thesuncitywitch, gamliel and OpenSourceSoftware liked SearXNG
    14 days ago
  • alexzeecomedy and PredatorQ liked SearXNG
    about 1 month ago
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SearXNG information

  • Developed by

    SearXNG
  • Licensing

    Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.3 (15 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    106 alternatives listed
  • Supported 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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GitHub repository

  •  18,786 Stars
  •  1,914 Forks
  •  268 Open Issues
  •   Updated May 5, 2025 
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Our users have written 8 comments and reviews about SearXNG, and it has gotten 95 likes

SearXNG was added to AlternativeTo by astuceman on Feb 10, 2022 and this page was last updated Oct 13, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Vincent Bonnefille
Jan 11, 2023
3

!bangs + privacy + proxy

Top Negative Comment
needmoremusic
Jun 1, 2024
1

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.

c17s5qhu
Feb 13, 2025
0

Runs smooth on my selfhosted server. Has many features.

TBayAreaPat
Oct 13, 2024
0

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.

Guest
Jan 19, 2024
0

A fork of a great search engine

Gabriel Oliveira
Jan 14, 2024
2

Free and open source.

inson1
Nov 18, 2023
0

Favicons of the result links are missing :/

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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

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