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[enh] faq updates

asciimoo 11 years ago
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 <div class="row">
     <h1>About <a href="/">searx</a></h1>
     <h1>About <a href="/">searx</a></h1>
 
 
-    <p>Searx is a meta-search engine inspired by the <a href="http://seeks-project.info/">seeks-project</a>.
+    <p>Searx is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine">metasearch engine</a> inspired by the <a href="http://seeks-project.info/">seeks-project</a>.
     <br />It tries to provide basic privacy by mixing your queries with those from others while avoiding storing search data. For all browsers (except chrom*) queries are made using a POST request. Thus they don't show up in our logs, nor in your url history. For Chrom* users there is an exception, searx is used from the search bar, it issues GET requests.
     <br />It tries to provide basic privacy by mixing your queries with those from others while avoiding storing search data. For all browsers (except chrom*) queries are made using a POST request. Thus they don't show up in our logs, nor in your url history. For Chrom* users there is an exception, searx is used from the search bar, it issues GET requests.
     <br />You can add it to your browsers search bar and even make it your default search engine.
     <br />You can add it to your browsers search bar and even make it your default search engine.
     </p>
     </p>
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 <h2 id="faq">FAQ</h2>
 <h2 id="faq">FAQ</h2>
 <h3>Trust</h3>
 <h3>Trust</h3>
-<p>It's ok if you don't trust us regarding the logs, <a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx">take the code</a> and run it yourself for your friends! decentralize!</p>
+<p>It's ok if you don't trust us regarding the logs, <a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx">take the code</a> and run it yourself! decentralize!</p>
 <h3>Firefox engines plz?</h3>
 <h3>Firefox engines plz?</h3>
 <p><a href="#" onclick="window.external.AddSearchProvider(window.location.protocol + '//' + window.location.host + '/opensearch.xml')">
 <p><a href="#" onclick="window.external.AddSearchProvider(window.location.protocol + '//' + window.location.host + '/opensearch.xml')">
 	Install</a> searx as a search engine on any version of Firefox!</p>
 	Install</a> searx as a search engine on any version of Firefox!</p>
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+<h3>New engines?</h3>
+<p><ul>
+    <li>Edit your engines.cfg, see <a href="https://raw.github.com/asciimoo/searx/master/engines.cfg_sample">sample config</a></li>
+    <li>Create your custom engine module, check the <a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/blob/master/examples/basic_engine.py">example engine</a></li>
+    </ul>Don't forget to restart searx after config edit.
+</p>
+<h3>WSGI support?</h3>
+<p><a href="https://about.okhin.fr/posts/Searx/">Okhin wrote</a> a great and detailed article about the setup.</p>
+<h3>How to debug engines?</h3>
+<p><a href="/stats">Stats page</a> contains some useful data about the used engines.</p>
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