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Privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine

If you are looking for running instances, ready to use, then visit searx.space. Otherwise jump to the user, admin and developer handbooks you will find on our homepage.

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Contact

Come join us if you have questions or just want to chat about SearXNG.

Matrix

#searxng:matrix.org

IRC

#searxng on libera.chat which is bridged to Matrix.

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

• you don't need Morty to proxy the images even on a public instance
• you don't need Filtron to block bots, we implemented the builtin limiter
• you get a well maintained Docker image, now also built for ARM64 and ARM/v7 architectures
• alternatively we have 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

Translations

We need translators, suggestions are welcome at https://weblate.bubu1.eu/projects/searxng/searxng/

Make a donation

You can support the SearXNG project by clicking on the donation page: https://docs.searxng.org/donate.html