- 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.
- 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.
- Searx is free software, the code is 100% open and you can help to make it
- better. See more on github.
+ Spot is free software, the code is 100% open and you can help to make it
+ better. See more on gitlab.
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
Technical details - How does it work?
- Searx is a metasearch engine,
+ Spot is a metasearch engine,
inspired by the seeks project.
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.
How to set as the default search engine?
- Searx supports OpenSearch.
+ Spot supports OpenSearch.
For more information on changing your default search engine, see your browser's documentation:
Where to find anonymous usage statistics of this instance ?
-
-
- Stats page contains some useful data about the engines used.
-
How can I make it my own?
- Searx appreciates your concern regarding logs, so take the
- code from the original searx project and
+ Spot appreciates your concern regarding logs, so take the
+ code from the original Spot project and
run it yourself!
-
- Add your searx instance to this list
- of public searx instances to help other people reclaim their privacy and
- make the Internet freer! The more decentralized the Internet is, the more
- freedom we have!
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