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Searx

Searx is a free metasearch engine.

Setup

The software can be setup via Docker with the Searx image.

Usage

This section addresses various features of Searx.

Browser support

Add Searx as a new search engine for Firefox and set it as main search for the address bar as described in the Firefox article. Follow the add-on part of the guide and put Searx with <url to searx instance>/search?q=%s as search string.

Route search traffic through tor

You can setup a torproxy with the dperson image. In the settings.yml file locate the section for proxies : and change it to the following:

proxies :
    http : socks5://<path to torproxy server>:9050
    https: socks5://<path to torproxy server>:9050