SearXNG is an Internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services that also helps protect your privacy.
SearXNG protects your privacy in three ways:
- Removal of private data from requests going to search services
- Not forwarding anything from a third party services through search services (e.g. advertisement)
- Removal of private data from requests going to the result pages
Please note: your home IP address is still exposed to the underlying search engines.
Read more about how running your own instance of SearXNG helps protect your privacy.
Simply click LAUNCH UI and start searching!
You can customize your SearXNG instance by visiting the Preferences button in the top right corner of your SearXNG homepage.
Fo more information on SearXNG and advanced usage instructions, check out the official documentation.
If you have enabled stats in config, you can visit your SearXNG URL followed by /stats and /stats/errors to view usage information about your SearXNG instance.