{% extends 'base.html' %} {% block content %} {% include 'github_ribbon.html' %} <div class="row"> <h1>About <a href="/">searx</a></h1> <p>Searx is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine">metasearch engine</a> inspired by the <a href="http://seeks-project.info/">seeks-project</a>. <br />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. <br />You can add it to your browsers search bar and even make it your default search engine. </p> <h2>What makes searx different</h2> <ul> <li>No ads - searx is Free Software (free-as-in-freedom), funded by your donations</li> <li>Privacy - tries to minimalize the digital footprint of the searches</li> <li>Optionally self hosted - see the <a href="#faq">FAQ</a></li> <li>Easy to add new engines/categories</li> </ul> <h2>Engines</h2> {% for (categ,search_engines) in categs %} <h3>{{ categ.capitalize() }}</h3> <ul> {% for search_engine in search_engines %} {% if not search_engine.private %} <li>{{ search_engine.name }}</li> {% endif %} {% endfor %} </ul> {% endfor %} <p>Please add more engines to this list, pull requests are welcome!</p> <h2><a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances">Running public instances</a></h2> <h2 id="faq">FAQ</h2> <h3>Trust</h3> <p>It's ok if you don't trust us regarding the logs, <a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx">take the code</a> and run it yourself! decentralize!</p> <h3>How to add to firefox?</h3> <p><a href="#" onclick="window.external.AddSearchProvider(window.location.protocol + '//' + window.location.host + '/opensearch.xml')">Install</a> searx as a search engine on any version of Firefox! (javascript required)</p> <h2 id="dev_faq">Developer FAQ</h2> <h3>New engines?</h3> <ul> <li>Edit your engines.cfg, see <a href="https://raw.github.com/asciimoo/searx/master/engines.cfg_sample">sample config</a></li> <li>Create your custom engine module, check the <a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/blob/master/examples/basic_engine.py">example engine</a></li> </ul> <p>Don't forget to restart searx after config edit!</p> <h3>WSGI support?</h3> <p><a href="https://about.okhin.fr/posts/Searx/">Okhin wrote</a> a great and detailed article about the setup.</p> <h3>How to debug engines?</h3> <p><a href="/stats">Stats page</a> contains some useful data about the used engines.</p> </div> {% endblock %}