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Commit efcdc497 authored by Nivesh Krishna's avatar Nivesh Krishna
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fix opensearch and about page with relevant content

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general:
    debug : False # Debug mode, only for development
    instance_name : "/e/ spot" # displayed name
    instance_name : "Spot" # displayed name
    contact_url: False # mailto:contact@example.com
    enable_stats: False # activate /stats page - note: it may leak usage data

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<div{% if rtl %} dir="ltr"{% endif %}>
  <h1>About <a href="{{ url_for('index') }}">searx</a></h1>
  <h1>About <a href="{{ url_for('index') }}">Spot</a></h1>

  <p>
    Searx 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 searx...</p>
  <p>More about Spot...</p>

  <ul>
    <li><a href="https://github.com/searx/searx">github</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://twitter.com/Searx_engine">twitter</a></li>
    <li>IRC: #searx @ freenode (<a href="https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.com/searx">webclient</a>)</li>
    <li><a href="https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/searx/">transifex</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/infra/spot">Gitlab</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://twitter.com/e_mydata">twitter</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://mastodon.social/@e_mydata">mastodon</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://t.me/mydataismydata">Telegram</a></li>
  </ul>

  <hr />

  <h2>Why use searx?</h2>
  <h2>Why use Spot?</h2>

  <ul>
    <li>
      Searx may not offer you as personalised results as Google, but it doesn't
      Spot may not offer you as personalised results as Google, but it doesn't
      generate a profile about you.
    </li>
    <li>
      Searx doesn't care about what you search for, never shares anything with a
      Spot doesn't care about what you search for, never shares anything with a
      third party, and it can't be used to compromise you.
    </li>
    <li>
      Searx is free software, the code is 100% open and you can help to make it
      better.  See more on <a href="https://github.com/searx/searx">github</a>.
      Spot is free software, the code is 100% open and you can help to make it
      better.  See more on <a href="https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/infra/spot">gitlab</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
    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>
    Searx 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: searx uses the search bar to perform GET
    browser users there is an exception: Spot uses the search bar to perform GET
    requests.
    
    Searx can be added to your browser's search bar; moreover, it can be set as
    Spot 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>

  <p>
    Searx supports <a href="https://github.com/dewitt/opensearch/blob/master/opensearch-1-1-draft-6.md">OpenSearch</a>.
    Spot supports <a href="https://github.com/dewitt/opensearch/blob/master/opensearch-1-1-draft-6.md">OpenSearch</a>.
    For more information on changing your default search engine, see your browser's documentation:
  </p>

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    <li>Chromium-based browsers <a href="https://www.chromium.org/tab-to-search">only add websites that the user navigates to without a path.</a>
  </ul>

  <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.
  </p>

  <h2>How can I make it my own?</h2>

  <p>
    Searx appreciates your concern regarding logs, so take the
    code from the <a href="https://github.com/searx/searx">original searx project</a> and
    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
    run it yourself!
  </p>
  <p>
    Add your searx instance to this <a href="{{ brand.PUBLIC_INSTANCES }}"> list
    of public searx instances</a> to help other people reclaim their privacy and
    make the Internet freer! The more decentralized the Internet is, the more
    freedom we have!
  </p>
 
  <h2>Where are the docs & code of this instance?</h2>

  <p>
    See the <a href="{{ brand.DOCS_URL }}">{{ brand.DOCS_URL }}</a>
    and <a href="{{ brand.GIT_URL }}">{{ brand.GIT_URL }}</a>
  </p>
 
</div>
{% include "__common__/aboutextend.html" ignore missing %}
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  <Description>a privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine</Description>
  <InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
  <Image>{{ url_for('static', filename='img/favicon.png', _external=True) }}</Image>
  <LongName>searx metasearch</LongName>
  <LongName>Spot</LongName>
  {% if opensearch_method == 'get' %}
    <Url rel="results" type="text/html" method="get" template="{{ url_for('search', _external=True) }}?q={searchTerms}"/>
  {% else %}
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     xmlns:opensearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"
     xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <channel>
    <title>Searx search: {{ q|e }}</title>
    <title>Spot search: {{ q|e }}</title>
    <link>{{ url_for('search', _external=True) }}?q={{ q|e }}</link>
    <description>Search results for "{{ q|e }}" - searx</description>
    <opensearch:totalResults>{{ number_of_results }}</opensearch:totalResults>
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                {{ _('Powered by') }} <a href="{{ repo_url }}">Spot</a> {{ version[1] }}<br/>
                An open-source metasearch engine forked from <a href="https://searx.github.io/searx/">Searx</a> {{ version[0] }}.
                <span class="links">
                    <a href="https://e.foundation">{{ _('About') }}</a>
                    <a href="{{url_for('about')}}">{{ _('About') }}</a>
                    <a href="https://e.foundation/legal-notice-privacy">{{ _('Privacy') }}</a>
                </span>
            </small>
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