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{% extends 'courgette/base.html' %}
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{% block content %}
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{% include 'courgette/github_ribbon.html' %}
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<div class="row"{% if rtl %} dir="ltr"{% endif %}>
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<h1>About <a href="{{ url_for('index') }}">searx</a></h1>
<p>Searx is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine">metasearch engine</a>, aggregating the results of other <a href="{{ url_for('preferences') }}">search engines</a> while not storing information about its users.
</p>
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<h2>Why use searx?</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>searx may not offer you as personalised results as Google, but it doesn't generate a profile about you</li>
<li>searx doesn't care about what you search for, never shares anything with a third party, and it can't be used to compromise you</li>
<li>searx is free software, the code is 100% open and you can help to make it better. See more on <a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx">github</a></li>
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</ul>
<p>If you do care about privacy, want to be a conscious user, or otherwise believe
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in digital freedom, make searx your default search engine or run it on your own server</p>
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<h2>Technical details - How does it work?</h2>
<p>Searx is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine">metasearch engine</a>,
inspired by the <a href="http://seeks-project.info/">seeks project</a>.<br />
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It provides basic privacy by mixing your queries with searches on other platforms without storing search data. Queries are made using a POST request on every browser (except chrome*). Therefore they show up in neither our logs, nor your url history. In case of Chrome* users there is an exception, searx uses the search bar to perform GET requests.<br />
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Searx can be added to your browser's search bar; moreover, it can be set as the default search engine.
</p>
<h2>How can I make it my own?</h2>
<p>Searx appreciates your concern regarding logs, so take the <a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx">code</a> and run it yourself! <br />Add your Searx to this <a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances">list</a> to help other people reclaim their privacy and make the Internet freer!
<br />The more decentralized the Internet, is the more freedom we have!</p>
<h2>More about searx</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx">github</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ohloh.net/p/searx/">ohloh</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/Searx_engine">twitter</a></li>
<li>IRC: #searx @ freenode (<a href="https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.com/searx">webclient</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/searx/">transifex</a></li>
</ul>
<hr />
<h2 id="faq">FAQ</h2>
<h3>How to add to firefox?</h3>
<p><a href="#" onclick="window.external.AddSearchProvider(window.location.protocol + '//' + window.location.host + '{{ url_for('opensearch') }}');">Install</a> searx as a search engine on any version of Firefox! (javascript required)</p>
<h2 id="dev_faq">Developer FAQ</h2>
<h3>New engines?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Edit your <a href="https://raw.github.com/asciimoo/searx/master/searx/settings.yml">settings.yml</a></li>
<li>Create your custom engine module, check the <a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/blob/master/examples/basic_engine.py">example engine</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Don't forget to restart searx after config edit!</p>
<h3>Installation/WSGI support?</h3>
<p>See the <a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Installation">installation and setup</a> wiki page</p>
<h3>How to debug engines?</h3>
<p><a href="{{ url_for('stats') }}">Stats page</a> contains some useful data about the engines used.</p>
</div>
{% endblock %}