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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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Many WEB-search engines (e.g. startpage) response best results if a **region**
is selected, most often a language filter is also in the properties of the
WEB-search engine.
hint::
The **search language** should not be mixed: sometimes the language argument
is just the language of the UI with none effect on the result list.
To summarize:
Some WEB-search engines have language codes (e.g. `ca`) in their properties,
other have a region codes (e.g. `ca-ES`), some have regions and languages in
their properties (e.g. startpage) and other engine do not have any language or
region support.
In the past we generalized *language* over all kind of engines without taking
into mind that several WEB-search engines have best results when there is a
region selected.
This *language-centric* view in SearXNG is misleading when we need
region-codes to parameterize a engine request!
This patch replaces the *language-centric* view by a "language / region" view.
Conclusions:
With regions we can't say any longer that a engine supports *this or that*
language. By example: when the user selects 'zh' and a engine supports only
region codes like 'zh-TW' or 'zh-CN' we do not what results the user expects /
similar with 'en' or 'fr when the engine needs a region tag.
- Since it is unclear what the user expects by his language selection, we can't
assert a property that says: "supports_selected_language"
The feature is replaced in the UI by the wider sense of "language_support",
what stands for:
The engine has some kind of language support, either
by a region tag or by a language tag.
- A list of "supported_languages" does not make sense when there are regions
responsible for the result of an engine.
The "supported_languages" has been removed from the /config URL.
- The `has_language` test in the `searx/search/checker/impl.py` has been removed
since it does not cover engines with region support.
If there is a need for such a test we can implement new tests after all
engines with language (region) support has been moved to the *supported
properites* scheme (`'type': 'engine_properties'`) / see commit previous
commit:
[mod] engines_languages.json: add new type EngineProperties
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
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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.
Contact
Come join us if you have questions or just want to chat about SearXNG.
- Matrix
- 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