SearXNG is for people who want to own their search outright. It’s free and open source under the AGPL. Instead of running an index it queries dozens of engines at once and merges what comes back, with no tracking, no profiling and no ads. You can use a public community instance or self-host it in a container for full control. How good the results are depends on which engines it draws from. Public instances vary in quality. The most private setup is the one you run yourself. It’s the most hands-on option here and the least beholden to any single company.
SearXNG
Open-source metasearch you host yourself, aggregating dozens of engines.
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Pricing Free and open source. Self-host it or use a community-run public instance.
Strengths
- Free and open source under the AGPL, fully auditable
- Aggregates dozens of engines, no single company in control
- No tracking, no profiling, no ads, no query logging
- Self-host for full control, or use a public instance
Considerations
- Best privacy needs self-hosting, which takes technical setup
- Result quality depends on the upstream engines and the instance
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