Research · What changed, and what people are saying, before you decide. · a tool
The open-source project searxng, by searxng
“SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.” — the project's own words, on GitHub
Paste this into the AI that runs on your computer. It does the install, checks it works, and tells you what to type first. If anything fails, paste the error back to it.
Install searxng (https://github.com/searxng/searxng) on this computer and get it working for me. I am not a developer; explain each step in one line as you go and never skip one. You are Claude Code, running on my machine. 1. Check what this machine already has (git, Python or Node as the project needs, Docker if the README says so). Tell me anything missing and install it, asking me before anything that needs my password. 2. Clone https://github.com/searxng/searxng into ~/tools/searxng and follow the README's install exactly. 3. Configure it. If it needs an API key or a login, stop and ask me for it; never guess one and never store it anywhere except where the README says. Tool-specific notes: Run it with `docker run --name searxng -d -p 8888:8080 -v "./config/:/etc/searxng/" -v "./data/:/var/cache/searxng/" docker.io/searxng/searxng:latest`, and create a `settings.yml` in `./config/` first. Smoke-test with `docker container list` to confirm it's up, then visit `http://localhost:8888` in a browser and run one search. If Docker Hub is rate-limiting pulls, use the mirror image `ghcr.io/searxng/searxng` instead. Don't expose port 8888 to the open internet without your own authentication in front of it — there's no login built in. 4. Run the smallest test the README gives, and show me the output. 5. When it works, tell me what to type first, in one line, for this job: Run one real search. If anything fails, show me the exact error and fix it before going on.
Install searxng (https://github.com/searxng/searxng) on this computer and get it working for me. I am not a developer; explain each step in one line as you go and never skip one. You are Kimi, running on my machine. 1. Check what this machine already has (git, Python or Node as the project needs, Docker if the README says so). Tell me anything missing and install it, asking me before anything that needs my password. 2. Clone https://github.com/searxng/searxng into ~/tools/searxng and follow the README's install exactly. 3. Configure it. If it needs an API key or a login, stop and ask me for it; never guess one and never store it anywhere except where the README says. Tool-specific notes: Run it with `docker run --name searxng -d -p 8888:8080 -v "./config/:/etc/searxng/" -v "./data/:/var/cache/searxng/" docker.io/searxng/searxng:latest`, and create a `settings.yml` in `./config/` first. Smoke-test with `docker container list` to confirm it's up, then visit `http://localhost:8888` in a browser and run one search. If Docker Hub is rate-limiting pulls, use the mirror image `ghcr.io/searxng/searxng` instead. Don't expose port 8888 to the open internet without your own authentication in front of it — there's no login built in. 4. Run the smallest test the README gives, and show me the output. 5. When it works, tell me what to type first, in one line, for this job: Run one real search. If anything fails, show me the exact error and fix it before going on.
Install searxng (https://github.com/searxng/searxng) on this computer and get it working for me. I am not a developer; explain each step in one line as you go and never skip one. You are Gemini CLI, running on my machine. 1. Check what this machine already has (git, Python or Node as the project needs, Docker if the README says so). Tell me anything missing and install it, asking me before anything that needs my password. 2. Clone https://github.com/searxng/searxng into ~/tools/searxng and follow the README's install exactly. 3. Configure it. If it needs an API key or a login, stop and ask me for it; never guess one and never store it anywhere except where the README says. Tool-specific notes: Run it with `docker run --name searxng -d -p 8888:8080 -v "./config/:/etc/searxng/" -v "./data/:/var/cache/searxng/" docker.io/searxng/searxng:latest`, and create a `settings.yml` in `./config/` first. Smoke-test with `docker container list` to confirm it's up, then visit `http://localhost:8888` in a browser and run one search. If Docker Hub is rate-limiting pulls, use the mirror image `ghcr.io/searxng/searxng` instead. Don't expose port 8888 to the open internet without your own authentication in front of it — there's no login built in. 4. Run the smallest test the README gives, and show me the output. 5. When it works, tell me what to type first, in one line, for this job: Run one real search. If anything fails, show me the exact error and fix it before going on.
Install searxng (https://github.com/searxng/searxng) on this computer and get it working for me. I am not a developer; explain each step in one line as you go and never skip one. You are Codex, running on my machine. 1. Check what this machine already has (git, Python or Node as the project needs, Docker if the README says so). Tell me anything missing and install it, asking me before anything that needs my password. 2. Clone https://github.com/searxng/searxng into ~/tools/searxng and follow the README's install exactly. 3. Configure it. If it needs an API key or a login, stop and ask me for it; never guess one and never store it anywhere except where the README says. Tool-specific notes: Run it with `docker run --name searxng -d -p 8888:8080 -v "./config/:/etc/searxng/" -v "./data/:/var/cache/searxng/" docker.io/searxng/searxng:latest`, and create a `settings.yml` in `./config/` first. Smoke-test with `docker container list` to confirm it's up, then visit `http://localhost:8888` in a browser and run one search. If Docker Hub is rate-limiting pulls, use the mirror image `ghcr.io/searxng/searxng` instead. Don't expose port 8888 to the open internet without your own authentication in front of it — there's no login built in. 4. Run the smallest test the README gives, and show me the output. 5. When it works, tell me what to type first, in one line, for this job: Run one real search. If anything fails, show me the exact error and fix it before going on.
Search for something you'd normally google and check the results actually came back from more than one underlying engine, not just one.
Configure your AI tool to use this instead of its default search and confirm it's genuinely hitting your instance by checking your own container's logs for the request.
Open its settings, disable a source you don't trust or don't need, and confirm your next search no longer includes it.
searxng/searxng on GitHub, under the AGPL-3.0 licence. 36,689 stars, checked 9 September 2026. Last change 8 September 2026. We did not write it; we checked it, and wrote this page so you can use it.
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Give it a web address, or a list of them, and it hands back clean, plain-text versions of those pages — headings and paragraphs stripped of surrounding code — so your AI can read them.
Give it a web address and it hands back the page as clean data — plain-text markdown, or JSON shaped the way you ask for — so your AI can read it without wading through a page's raw code.
You give it a question and it goes and researches it properly — pulling from many web sources at once, reading past what any single article says, and writing up a full report with citations you can check yourself.
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