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SEARX

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General

Searx is an Open source Web search engine licensed under the AGPL 3 license, programmed in Python. Specifically, it is a Metasearch engine[1]. Searx can aggregate results through various engines including Google Search, Yahoo! Search, Bing, Yandex, DuckDuckGo, Torrent sites, video sites, various music sites, social media sites, GitHub, and other project sharing sites[2].

PRIVACY

Searx does not use cookies by default, it does not track its users, it does not profile / collect its users data, and it does not share data with third party companies. Most public instances of searx use an encrypted connection such as HTTPS[3].

HOSTING

Searx can be run under Localhost[4]. Public instances of Searx can be found at http://stats.searx.oe5tpo.com/. The primary public instance is run under the URL of https://searx.me/ .[5]

SUPPORT

Searx has support for Open search, meaning it can be set as the default search engine. Searx also has support for downloading search results as JSON, RSS, and CSV. Along with support for duckduckgo !bang-like shortcuts.[6] Searx can submit searches using POST requests, so the search shows up in neither your history or Searxs logs[7].

SEARCH

Searx has support for many Web search engines the list of possible search engines can be found Here and already-supported engines can be found Here.[8][9]

Installation

Searx can be installed more simply with docker[10]. It also can be installed under using virtualenv, and uwsgi using a Debian or Ubuntu Operating system [11].

  1. ^ "asciimoo/searx". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
  2. ^ "Searx.me search - Free Software Directory". directory.fsf.org. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
  3. ^ "Searx | Me and my Shadow". myshadow.org. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
  4. ^ "asciimoo/searx". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
  5. ^ "My Searx instance - Logan Marchione". Logan Marchione. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
  6. ^ Mailman, Author. "Searx: self-hosted web metasearch engine". TuxDiary. Retrieved 2016-02-25. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  7. ^ "can anyone explain searx? I've been reading the github but I can't seem to get an intuition for how it works • /r/learnprogramming". reddit. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
  8. ^ "asciimoo/searx". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
  9. ^ "asciimoo/searx". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
  10. ^ "asciimoo/searx". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
  11. ^ "Installation — searx 0.8.0 documentation". asciimoo.github.io. Retrieved 2016-02-25.
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