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- Category
- Search · Self-host
- Cost
- Self-host
- Country
- community
- Licensing
- FOSS
# PROS AND CONS
+ what works
- +No tracking, no profiling, no ads in the default config
- +Aggregates 200+ engines, with per-category and per-engine toggles
- +Active fork of searx with regular releases and a healthy contributor base
- +AGPLv3, Python, runs in Docker or natively
− watch out for
- −Result quality depends on upstream engines; rate limits and CAPTCHAs from Google or Bing can degrade results
- −Public instances may be blocked or rate-limited by upstreams due to shared traffic
- −Running your own instance means maintaining a Python service and keeping it patched
- −No first-party mobile app; you use it through a browser
# PRIVACY NOTES
SearXNG forwards your query to upstream engines on your behalf and returns merged results, so the upstream engines see the instance's IP rather than yours. The instance itself does not log queries or set tracking cookies by default. Self-hosting is the privacy-maximal path; using a public instance from searx.space is a separate trust decision, since the operator could in principle log traffic. Using a public instance over Tor mitigates that.
# REPLACES
google-searchbing
# TAGS
#foss · #metasearch · #python · #agplv3 · #docker
# DOES THIS WORK FOR YOU
# NOTES FROM PEOPLE WHO TRIED IT
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