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Co-authored-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Co-authored-by: Alexandre Flament <alex@al-f.net>
2022-01-17 09:34:42 +01:00

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Privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine

If you are looking for running instances, ready to use, then visit searx.space. Otherwise jump to the user, admin and developer handbooks you will find on our homepage.

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Contact

Come join us if you have questions or just want to chat about SearXNG.

Matrix

#searxng:matrix.org

IRC

#searxng on libera.chat which is bridged to Matrix.

Differences to searx

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

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
  • 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
  • it is easier to report a bug of an engine
  • but you can also disable the recording of the metrics on the server

Setup

  • the Docker image is now also built for ARM64 and ARM/v7 architectures
  • you don't need Morty to proxy the images even on a public instance
  • on the way to embed Filtron into SearXNG
  • up to date installation scripts

Contributing is easier

  • readable debug log
  • contributions to the themes are made easier, check out our Development Quickstart guide
  • a lot of code cleanup and bug fixes
  • the dependencies are up to date

Translations

We need translators, suggestions are welcome at https://weblate.bubu1.eu/projects/searxng/searxng/