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SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from up to 229 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, SearXNG can be used over Tor for online anonymity.

Get started with SearXNG by using one of the instances listed at searx.space. If you don’t trust anyone, you can set up your own, see Installation.

SearXNG protects the privacy of its users in multiple ways, regardless of the type of the instance (private or public). Removal of private data from search requests comes in three forms:

1. Removing private data from requests going to search services

2. Not forwarding anything from third party services through search services (e.g. advertisement)

3. Removing private data from requests going to the results pages

Removing private data means not sending cookies to external search engines and generating a random browser profile for every request. Thus, it does not matter if a public or private instance handles the request, because it is anonymized in both cases. The IP address used will be the IP of the instance, but SearXNG can also be configured to use proxy or Tor. Result proxy is supported, too.

SearXNG does not serve ads or tracking content, unlike most search services. Therefore, private data is not forwarded to third parties who might monetize it. Besides protecting users from search services, both the referring page and search query are hidden from the results pages being visited.