SearXNG
SearXNG is a privacy-respecting, self-hosted metasearch engine that aggregates results from over 70 search services — including Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Brave — and presents them through a single, clean interface without tracking, profiling or logging your searches. It is the actively maintained community fork of the retired searx project, written in Python and designed to run on your own infrastructure.
Key Features
- Metasearch aggregation — Queries dozens of upstream search engines and combines their results into one page
- Privacy first — No user tracking, no search history and no profiling; queries are proxied through the instance
- Self-hosted — Runs on your own server (Docker or bare metal) so you control the data
- 70+ engines — Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Wikipedia, Reddit, maps and more, tuneable per category
- Multiple output formats — HTML, JSON and RSS, plus an API for programmatic querying
- Customisable — Adjustable UI themes, default engines, categories and privacy settings
Why Use SearXNG?
If you value search privacy but still want high-quality results, SearXNG gives you the best of both worlds. Because it is self-hosted, you hold the keys: no third party sees your query history, and you can even share your instance with friends and family as a privacy-respecting alternative to mainstream search engines.
Use Cases
- Privacy-conscious individuals who want tracker-free searching
- Families or communities running a shared private search instance
- Developers building custom search UIs via the JSON API
- Power users who want to choose which upstream engines get used
Platform
Linux · macOS · Windows (self-hosted; Docker images available)
Licence
AGPL-3.0