SearX
The original privacy-respecting metasearch engine
SearX is the original open-source metasearch engine that aggregates results from multiple search engines while protecting user privacy. It paved the way for the modern SearXNG fork.
Key features
- Privacy-respecting metasearch
- No tracking of queries
- Configurable engine list
- JSON API output
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Lightweight
- Foundational privacy search
Trade-offs
- Largely superseded by SearXNG
SearX replaces
Compare SearX
37 head-to-head comparisons.
- SearX vs Elasticsearch
- SearX vs Meilisearch
- SearX vs Milvus
- SearX vs Perplexica
- SearX vs SearXNG
- SearX vs Qdrant
- SearX vs Typesense
- SearX vs Sonic
- SearX vs ZincSearch
- SearX vs Weaviate
- SearX vs Tantivy
- SearX vs Manticore Search
- SearX vs Whoogle Search
- SearX vs Quickwit
- SearX vs Sonic Note Meili-alt Bleve
- SearX vs Orama
- SearX vs Lunr.js
- SearX vs ParadeDB
- SearX vs Morphic
- SearX vs Vespa
- SearX vs MindSearch
- SearX vs RediSearch
- SearX vs Hound
- SearX vs Pagefind
- SearX vs Marqo
- SearX vs YaCy
- SearX vs Farfalle
- SearX vs Stract
- SearX vs Marginalia Search
- SearX vs Mwmbl
- SearX vs Websurfx
- SearX vs LibreX
- SearX vs 4get
- SearX vs Araa Search
- SearX vs LibreY
- SearX vs MetaGer
- SearX vs PeARS
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