AppRequest: SearXNG

[phob]

Searx is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, searx can be used over Tor for online anonymity.

SearXNG is a fork of searx.

SearXNG Docker

[maximuskowalski]

Differences to searx

SearXNG is a fork of searx_. Here are some of the changes:

.. _searx: https://github.com/searx/searx

User experience

• Huge update of the simple theme:

  • usable on desktop, tablet and mobile
  • light and dark versions (you can choose in the preferences)
  • support right-to-left languages
  • see the screenshots <https://dev.searxng.org/screenshots.html>_

• the translations are up to date, you can contribute on Weblate_

• the preferences page has been updated:

  • you can see which engines are reliable or not
  • engines are grouped inside each tab
  • each engine has a description

• thanks to the anonymous metrics, it is easier to report a bug of an engine and thus engines get fixed more quickly

  • if you don't want any metrics to be recorded, you can disable them on the server <https://docs.searxng.org/admin/engines/settings.html#general>_

• administrator can block and/or replace the URLs in the search results <https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/5c1c0817c3996c5670a545d05831d234d21e6217/searx/settings.yml#L191-L199>_