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== Searx (Web Search) ==
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'''Available since''':  version 0.24.0

=== About Searx ===

Searx is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine|metasearch engine]]. A metasearch engine aggregates the results from various search engines and presents them in a unified interface.

Read more about Searx on their [[https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/|official website]].

=== Screenshot ===
{{attachment:searx-screenshot.png|Searx Screenshot|width=800}}

=== Screencast ===
[[attachment:Searx.webm|Searx installation and first steps|&do=get]] (14 MB)

=== Why use Searx? ===

==== Personalization and Filter Bubbles ====

Search engines have the ability to profile users and serve results most relevant to them, putting people into [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble|filter bubbles]], thus distorting people's view of the world. Search engines have a financial incentive to serve interesting advertisements to their users, increasing their chances of clicking on the advertisements.

A metasearch engine is a possible solution to this problem, as it aggregates results from multiple search engines thus bypassing personalization attempts by search engines. 

Searx avoids storing cookies from search engines as a means of preventing tracking and profiling by search engines.

==== Advertisement filtering ====

Searx filters out advertisements from the search results before serving the results, thus increasing relevance the of your search results and saving you from distractions.

==== Privacy ====

Searx uses HTTP POST instead of GET by default to send your search queries to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine|search engines]], so that anyone snooping your traffic wouldn't be able to read your queries. The search queries wouldn't stored in browser history either. 

'''Note:''' Searx used from Chrome browser's omnibar would make GET requests instead of POST.

=== Searx on FreedomBox ===


 * Searx on !FreedomBox uses Single Sign On. This means that you should be logged in into your !FreedomBox in the browser that you're using Searx. 
 * SearX is easily accessible via Tor.
 * Searx can be added as a search engine to the Firefox browser's search bar. See [[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox|Firefox Help]] on this topic. Once Searx is added, you can also set it as your default search engine.
 * Searx also offers search results in csv, json and rss formats, which can be used with scripts to automate some tasks.


=== External links ===

 * Upstream Project: https://searx.github.io/searx/
 * Upstream documentation: https://searx.github.io/searx/user/index.html
 * Searx wiki: https://github.com/searx/searx/wiki


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