Non-Docker Local Installation of searX on Linux<p><a href="https://persagen.com/2020/02/02/searx.html" rel="nofollow">https://persagen.com/2020/02/02/searx.html</a><p>TL/DR<p>* searX is a free metasearch engine with the aim of protecting the privacy of its users.<p>* searX does not share users’ IP addresses or search history.<p>* Tracking cookies served by the search engines are blocked.<p>* searX queries do not appear in search engine webserver logs.<p>In addition to the general search, the engine also features tabs to search within specific domains:<p><pre><code> General|Files|Images|IT|Maps|Music|News|Science|Social Media|Videos
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I do a lot of technical searches (StackOverflow …) and in my preliminary use of searX I find that selecting “General” (only) as the Default Category (in Preferences) gives the best results.<p>Notably:<p>* Each search result is given as a direct link to the respective site, rather than a tracked redirect link as used by Google.<p>* When available, these direct links are accompanied by “cached” and/or “proxied” links that allow viewing results pages without actually visiting the sites in question.<p>* The “cached” links point to saved versions of a page on archive.org, while the “proxied” links allow viewing the current live page via a searX-based web proxy.