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Commit 97175219 authored by Markus Heiser's avatar Markus Heiser
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Minor improvements of the HTML *about* page

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  <hr />

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

  <p>
    Searx 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 chrome*).  Therefore they show up in neither our
    logs, nor your url history.  In case of Chrome* users there is an exception,
    searx uses the search bar to perform GET requests.

    Searx can be added to your browser's search bar; moreover, it can be set as
    the default search engine.
  </p>

  <h2>Why use searx?</h2>

  <ul>
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      better.  See more on <a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx">github</a>.
    </li>
  </ul>

  <p>
    If you do care about privacy, want to be a conscious user, or otherwise
    believe in digital freedom, make searx your default search engine or run it
    on your own server
  </p>

  <h2 id='add to browser'>Can it be set as the default search engine?</h2>
  <h2>Technical details - How does it work?</h2>

  <p>
    Searx 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 chrome*).  Therefore they show up in neither our
    logs, nor your url history.  In case of Chrome* users there is an exception,
    searx uses the search bar to perform GET requests.

    Searx can be added to your browser's search bar; moreover, it can be set as
    the default search engine.
  </p>

  <h2 id='add to browser'>How to set as the default search engine?</h2>

  <dt>Firefox</dt>

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    searx as a search engine on any version of Firefox! (javascript required)
  </dd>

  <h2>How to debug engines?</h2>
  <h2>Where to find anonymous usage statistics of this instance ?</h2>

  <p>
    <a href="{{ url_for('stats') }}">Stats page</a> contains some useful data about the engines used.
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  <p>
    Searx appreciates your concern regarding logs, so take the
    code from the <a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx">orgin searx projekct</a> and
    code from the <a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx">orgin searx project</a> and
    run it yourself!
  </p>
  <p>