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

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SearXNG is a privacy-respecting meta-search engine aggregating dozens of sources, widely used as the retrieval layer behind self-hosted AI answer engines.

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

searxng has 36.3k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 3.3k times. searxng is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2021. searxng is available under the AGPL-3.0 license. Its main topics are bing, brave, degoogle, duckduckgo.

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What is searxng?

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

Is searxng open source?

searxng is an open-source project. It is released under the AGPL-3.0 license.

Is searxng free?

Yes. searxng is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it. Its AGPL-3.0 license is a strong copyleft: if you distribute a modified version — including offering it as a network service — your changes must be released under the same license.

What license does searxng use?

searxng is available under the AGPL-3.0 license.

What language is searxng written in?

searxng is written mainly in Python.

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