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  <section id="welcome-to-searxng">
<h1>Welcome to SearXNG<a class="headerlink" href="#welcome-to-searxng" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
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<div><p><em>Search without being tracked.</em></p>
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<p>SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from up
to 246 <a class="reference internal" href="user/configured_engines.html#configured-engines"><span class="std std-ref">search services</span></a>.  Users
are neither tracked nor profiled.  Additionally, SearXNG can be used over Tor
for online anonymity.</p>
<p>Get started with SearXNG by using one of the instances listed at <a class="reference external" href="https://searx.space">searx.space</a>.
If you don’t trust anyone, you can set up your own, see <a class="reference internal" href="admin/installation.html#installation"><span class="std std-ref">Installation</span></a>.</p>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="own-instance.html#searxng-protect-privacy"><span class="std std-ref">no user tracking / no profiling</span></a></p></li>
<li><p>script &amp; cookies are optional</p></li>
<li><p>secure, encrypted connections</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="user/configured_engines.html#configured-engines"><span class="std std-ref">246 search engines</span></a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/searxng/searxng/">58 translations</a></p></li>
<li><p>about 70 <a class="reference external" href="https://uptime.searxng.org/">well maintained</a> instances on <a class="reference external" href="https://searx.space">searx.space</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="dev/engines/demo/demo_online.html#demo-online-engine"><span class="std std-ref">easy integration of search engines</span></a></p></li>
<li><p>professional development: <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/searxng/searxng/actions">CI</a>,
<a class="reference external" href="https://dev.searxng.org/">quality assurance</a> &amp;
<a class="reference external" href="https://dev.searxng.org/screenshots.html">automated tested UI</a></p></li>
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<p class="sidebar-title">be a part</p>
<p>SearXNG is driven by an open community, come join us!  Don’t hesitate, no
need to be an <em>expert</em>, everyone can contribute:</p>
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<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/searxng/searxng/">help to improve translations</a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://matrix.to/#/#searxng:matrix.org">discuss with the community</a></p></li>
<li><p>report bugs &amp; suggestions</p></li>
<li><p>…</p></li>
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<p class="sidebar-title">the origin</p>
<p>SearXNG development has been started in the middle of 2021 as a fork of the
searx project.</p>
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