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Commit 6a985047 authored by Nivesh Krishna's avatar Nivesh Krishna
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  <h1>About <a href="{{ url_for('index') }}">Spot</a></h1>

  <p>
    Spot is /e/'s fork of <a href="https://github.com/searx/searx">searx</a> which is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine">metasearch engine</a>,
    Spot is a fork of <a href="https://github.com/searx/searx">searx</a> which is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine">metasearch engine</a>,
    aggregating the results of other <a href="{{ url_for('preferences') }}">search engines</a>
    while not storing information about its users.
  </p>

  <p>More about spot...</p>
  <p>More about Spot...</p>

  <ul>
    <li><a href="https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/infra/spot">Gitlab</a></li>
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  <p>
    If you do care about privacy, want to be a conscious user, or otherwise
    believe in digital freedom, make spot your default search engine or run it
    believe in digital freedom, make Spot your default search engine or run it
    on your own server
  </p>

  <h2>Technical details - How does it work?</h2>

  <p>
    spot is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine">metasearch engine</a>,
    Spot is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine">metasearch engine</a>,
    inspired by the <a href="https://beniz.github.io/seeks/">seeks project</a>.

    It provides basic privacy by mixing your queries with searches on other
    platforms without storing search data. Queries are made using a POST request
    on every browser (except Chromium-based browsers*).  Therefore they show up 
    in neither our logs, nor your url history. In the case of Chromium-based
    browser users there is an exception: spot uses the search bar to perform GET
    browser users there is an exception: Spot uses the search bar to perform GET
    requests.
    
    Spot can be added to your browser's search bar; moreover, it can be set as
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  <p>
    Spot appreciates your concern regarding logs, so take the
    code from the <a href="https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/infra/spot">original spot project</a> and
    code from the <a href="https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/infra/spot">original Spot project</a> and
    run it yourself!
  </p>