It is an open-source project that doesn’t have any ads and works only on donations. Also, it doesn’t log IP addresses or searchers.

https://searx.tiekoetter.com/

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    1 year ago

    I’m never sure about what privacy actually constitutes anymore. But since you can just run your own instance of SearX, I would guess yes. You should have control of everything you look up in the internet. Though sites you enter can still log info they get from you anyways, that can only change through other methods. I tried running my own instance of SearX for a while with moderate success, but it is something that requires more knowledge and time than I have, so I just reverted to use Brave Search. It was decent enough, I guess, but I feel that something, I don’t know what, was always lacking from it. I also was never able to run it in a reliable way for some reason, probably my fault. If you don’t host your own but rather use someone else’s instance, then you just have to trust said person/org I suppose.

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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the answer! I use someone else’s instance because I figured that even if they do log things, at least is not Google. And I am supporting an open-source project. Also, I like the search results that I get and how much control you get to customize the page.

      I never liked Brave Search because the results were always off and because the company’s founder and CEO is a homophobic right-wing Covid denier, reason which got him kicked out of Mozilla and made him create Brave.