searxng VS searx

Compare searxng vs searx and see what are their differences.

searxng

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. (by searxng)

searx

Privacy-respecting metasearch engine [Moved to: https://github.com/searx/searx] (by asciimoo)
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searxng searx
117 3
6,742 8,282
5.7% -
9.8 9.5
6 days ago about 3 years ago
Python Python
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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searxng

Posts with mentions or reviews of searxng. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.
  • So I deployed Whoogle on my NAS....
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 8 Dec 2023
  • Your privacy is optional
    12 projects | dev.to | 19 Sep 2023
    I have switched over to using DuckDuckGo as my main search engine, but I may set up SearNGX behind a VPN in the future.
  • Welcome to mwmbl, the free, open-source and non-profit search engine
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Sep 2023
    For my first search (current work problem) "rust json diff" it only found 6 links, only one of which was a rust crate. Unfortunate.

    Second Search: "black sabbath sleeping village lyrics" only gave 2 results, only one of which was correct.

    Also the repo is missing the SearXNG[1] search engine.

    [1] https://github.com/searxng/searxng

  • Searx is no longer maintained
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2023
    From the README,

    > What is the difference between searx and SearxNG?

    > TL;DR: SearXNG is for users that want more features and bugs getting fixed quicker. If you prefer a minimalist software and stable experience, use searx.

    > SearxNG is a fork of searx, created by a former maintainer of searx. The fork was created because the majority of the maintainers at the time did not find the new proposed features privacy respecting enough. The most significant issue is with engine metrics.

    > Searx is built for privacy conscious users. It comes with a unique set of challenges. One of the problems we face is that users rather not report bugs, because they do not want to publicly share what engines they use or what search query triggered a problem. It is a challenge we accepted.

    > The new metrics feature collects more information to make engine maintenance easier. We could have had better and more error reports to benefit searx maintainers. However, we believe that the users of searx must come first, not the software. We are willing to compromise on the lack of issue reports to avoid violating the privacy of users.

    > Furthermore, SearxNG is under heavy refactoring and dependencies are constantly updated, even if it is unnecessary. It increases the risk of introducing regressions. In searx we strive for stability, rather than moving fast and breaking things.

    https://github.com/searxng/searxng

  • Google - But On a Subset of the Internet
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 7 Jul 2023
  • Try a Marxist-Leninist search engine - is it useful?
    2 projects | /r/TheDeprogram | 28 Jun 2023
    Hmm if you're good at computer shit you could put up a custom Searxng instance and configure it to only search a certain subset of sources/websites. It'd be self-hosted so no google, you just need a domain and a vps to host it on.
  • Does Firefox have the same results as Google chrome?
    2 projects | /r/firefox | 29 May 2023
    SearXNG
  • Marginalia.nu API
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 May 2023
    > SearXNG supports marginalia but uses the demo key.

    Yeah. Looking over the GitHub issue you raised about it, they didn't seem to really understand the problem before they closed it.

    I've just asked a question about it (same thing, different wording), which might work:

    https://github.com/searxng/searxng/discussions/2412

  • Best alternative to duckduckgo?
    5 projects | /r/PrivacyGuides | 7 May 2023
  • Why Firefox doesn't launch their own Private search engine ?
    2 projects | /r/firefox | 23 Apr 2023
    - SearXNG - It aggregates results from various search services and databases. I personally find these two instances to be really good options but there are others if you search the "instance list": searx.be and baresearch.org

searx

Posts with mentions or reviews of searx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-18.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing searxng and searx you can also consider the following projects:

Searx - Privacy-respecting metasearch engine

whoogle-search - A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine

searx-instances - SearXNG instances list

elasticsearch-py - Official Python client for Elasticsearch

Yacy - Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance

librex - Framework and javascript free privacy respecting meta search engine

tribler - Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery

rathole - A lightweight and high-performance reverse proxy for NAT traversal, written in Rust. An alternative to frp and ngrok.

searxng - SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. This is a fork of SearXNG used by searx.tiekoetter.com

algorithms - Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms in Python

elasticsearch-dsl-py - High level Python client for Elasticsearch

ublacklist - Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results