What is this?
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine: it aggregates results from various search services and databases into one results page, and users are neither tracked nor profiled.
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine: it aggregates results from various search services and databases into one results page, and users are neither tracked nor profiled.Is this a public search site I can just visit, or software I run myself?It's software you run yourself: SearXNG is a self-hosted metasearch service — you deploy an instance on your own server and use it through a web browser.
It's software you run yourself: SearXNG is a self-hosted metasearch service — you deploy an instance on your own server and use it through a web browser.How do I get an instance running?The README does not inline the steps: its Setup section points to the project's Installation guide for deploying, and a separate Configuration guide covers fine-tuning once the instance is up.
The README does not inline the steps: its Setup section points to the project's Installation guide for deploying, and a separate Configuration guide covers fine-tuning once the instance is up.What do I need on my server to run it?SearXNG is a Python web application — Python is the repository's primary language — and its CI pipeline includes container builds, so you can run it from source or as a container on your own server.
SearXNG is a Python web application — Python is the repository's primary language — and its CI pipeline includes container builds, so you can run it from source or as a container on your own server.Is it free, and is there a catch in the license?Free under AGPL-3.0. The catch is the network copyleft clause: if you modify SearXNG and offer it as a web service, you must release your modified source code.
Free under AGPL-3.0. The catch is the network copyleft clause: if you modify SearXNG and offer it as a web service, you must release your modified source code.Which search engines does it pull results from?The repository's topics list Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Qwant, Startpage and Yahoo among its sources, alongside other search services and databases whose results it merges into one page.
The repository's topics list Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Qwant, Startpage and Yahoo among its sources, alongside other search services and databases whose results it merges into one page.Is the project still actively developed?Yes — the repository is not archived, has around 38,000 stars, and its CI runs automated container build and data-update workflows.
Yes — the repository is not archived, has around 38,000 stars, and its CI runs automated container build and data-update workflows.What are similar projects?searx, whoogle-search, awesome-privacy, invidious, wigolo, dsh-free-search, nitter, LibreTranslate
searx, whoogle-search, awesome-privacy, invidious, wigolo, dsh-free-search, nitter, LibreTranslateWhich topics is it in?degoogle, information-retrieval, webapp, container, web-server, search-engine, self-hosting, privacy-tools, foss, agplv3, privacy-first, google
degoogle, information-retrieval, webapp, container, web-server, search-engine, self-hosting, privacy-tools, foss, agplv3, privacy-first, google