Searxng

App in the BluixApps catalog

What it is

SearXNG is a privacy-respecting meta-search engine that aggregates results from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, and 200+ other engines — without tracking users. Drop-in replacement for Google: same query box, same results, zero profile-building.

It's the search engine for people who realized "Incognito" doesn't mean private, and that DuckDuckGo still calls Bing's API with your IP attached.

What it's for

  • Personal search — your daily search engine without tracking
  • Family / team deployment — household search engine for shared privacy
  • AI agent web search — privacy-friendly search backend for LLM apps
  • Research search — aggregate results from multiple engines for completeness
  • Educational deployment — search engine for schools under student data privacy laws

Who it's for

  • Privacy-conscious individuals rejecting Google / Bing / DuckDuckGo profiling
  • AI engineers plugging private web search into LLM agents (n8n, Flowise, OpenHands)
  • Schools & universities running search for students under FERPA/GDPR
  • Privacy-focused organizations rights groups, journalists, dissidents
  • Self-hosters wanting Google-replacement without per-month SaaS cost

Why teams pick SearXNG over alternatives

  • No tracking — no cookies, no profile, no logged queries (configurable)
  • 200+ search engines — aggregates Google, Bing, Wikipedia, Reddit, GitHub, Stack Overflow
  • AGPLv3 — strong copyleft, fully open
  • Self-hosted — your VPS, your queries, your privacy
  • API support — JSON / RSS output for programmatic search
  • Active development — community-driven NG fork of original SearX

Integrations

  • AI agent backends — n8n, Flowise, LangChain, Open WebUI use SearXNG for web search
  • Output formats — HTML, JSON, RSS, CSV for varied consumers
  • Authentication — optional Basic Auth, OAuth via reverse proxy
  • Result engines — Google, Bing, DDG, Wikipedia, Reddit, GitHub, Hacker News, 200+ others
  • Plugins — Vim mode, infinite scroll, search bangs (!yt, !gh, !so)
  • Tor support — optional onion routing for results
  • Custom themes — Material, Oscar, Simple, customizable

Notable users & community

  • 17k+ GitHub stars
  • Hundreds of public instances worldwide
  • Active Matrix / IRC community
  • Featured in privacy-tool roundups (PrivacyTools, AlternativeTo)
  • Fork of original SearX (now unmaintained) with stronger community

Tips & operations

  • Rate-limit external API — public instances get hammered; set per-IP limits
  • Disable suggestions if traffic is heavy — autocomplete calls upstream engines per keystroke
  • Choose engines wisely — some engines (Bing, Brave) require API keys; configure or disable
  • Use Redis for caching — repeat queries hit cache, save on upstream API calls
  • Set bot detection appropriately — Google blocks public SearXNG instances; tune User-Agent rotation
  • Persist /etc/searxng — settings.yml here; mount volume from day one

What we ship in BluixApps

  • Docker compose: SearXNG + Redis cache
  • Pinned searxng/searxng:latest (release-tagged)
  • HTTPS via Let's Encrypt
  • Default engines pre-configured (Google, Bing, DDG, Wikipedia, GitHub, Stack Overflow)
  • Rate limiting enabled to prevent abuse
  • API endpoint at /search?format=json for AI agent backends
  • Backup hook covers settings + theme customization
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