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<spanid="about-searxng"></span><h1>About SearXNG<aclass="headerlink"href="#about-searxng"title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<p>SearXNG is a <aclass="reference external"href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine">metasearch engine</a>, aggregating the results of other
<codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">search</span><spanclass="pre">engines</span></code> while not storing information about
its users.</p>
<p>The SearXNG project is driven by an open community, come join us on Matrix if
you have questions or just want to chat about SearXNG at <aclass="reference external"href="https://matrix.to/#/#searxng:matrix.org">#searxng:matrix.org</a></p>
<p>Make SearXNG better.</p>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>You can improve SearXNG translations at <aclass="reference external"href="https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/searxng/">Weblate</a>, or…</p></li>
<li><p>Track development, send contributions, and report issues at <aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng">SearXNG sources</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>To get further information, visit SearXNG’s project documentation at <aclass="reference external"href="https://docs.searxng.org/">SearXNG
docs</a>.</p></li>
</ul>
<sectionid="why-use-it">
<h2>Why use it?<aclass="headerlink"href="#why-use-it"title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>SearXNG may not offer you as personalized results as Google, but it doesn’t
generate a profile about you.</p></li>
<li><p>SearXNG doesn’t care about what you search for, never shares anything with a
third-party, and it can’t be used to compromise you.</p></li>
<li><p>SearXNG is free software, the code is 100% open, and everyone is welcome to
make it better.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>If you do care about privacy, want to be a conscious user, or otherwise believe
in digital freedom, make SearXNG your default search engine or run it on your
<h2>How do I set it as the default search engine?<aclass="headerlink"href="#how-do-i-set-it-as-the-default-search-engine"title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>SearXNG supports <aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/dewitt/opensearch/blob/master/opensearch-1-1-draft-6.md">OpenSearch</a>. For more information on changing your default
search engine, see your browser’s documentation:</p>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028574/microsoft-edge-change-the-default-search-engine">Microsoft Edge</a> - Behind the link, you will also find some useful instructions
for Chrome and Safari.</p></li>
<li><p><aclass="reference external"href="https://www.chromium.org/tab-to-search">Chromium</a>-based browsers only add websites that the user navigates to without
a path.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>When adding a search engine, there must be no duplicates with the same name. If
you encounter a problem where you cannot add the search engine, you can either:</p>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>remove the duplicate (default name: SearXNG) or</p></li>
<li><p>contact the owner to give the instance a different name than the default.</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<sectionid="how-does-it-work">
<h2>How does it work?<aclass="headerlink"href="#how-does-it-work"title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>SearXNG is a fork from the well-known <aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/searx/searx">searx</a><aclass="reference external"href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine">metasearch engine</a> which was
inspired by the <aclass="reference external"href="https://beniz.github.io/seeks/">Seeks project</a>. It provides basic privacy by mixing your
queries with searches on other platforms without storing search data. SearXNG
can be added to your browser’s search bar; moreover, it can be set as the
default search engine.</p>
<p>The <codeclass="docutils literal notranslate"><spanclass="pre">stats</span><spanclass="pre">page</span></code> contains some useful anonymous usage
statistics about the engines used.</p>
</section>
<sectionid="how-can-i-make-it-my-own">
<h2>How can I make it my own?<aclass="headerlink"href="#how-can-i-make-it-my-own"title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>SearXNG appreciates your concern regarding logs, so take the code from the
<aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng">SearXNG sources</a> and run it yourself!</p>
<p>Add your instance to this <aclass="reference external"href="https://searx.space">list of public
instances</a> to help other people
reclaim their privacy and make the internet freer. The more decentralized the
<liclass="toctree-l3"><aclass="reference internal"href="#why-use-it">Why use it?</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l3"><aclass="reference internal"href="#how-do-i-set-it-as-the-default-search-engine">How do I set it as the default search engine?</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l3"><aclass="reference internal"href="#how-does-it-work">How does it work?</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l3"><aclass="reference internal"href="#how-can-i-make-it-my-own">How can I make it my own?</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<liclass="toctree-l1"><aclass="reference internal"href="../own-instance.html">Why use a private instance?</a></li>