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Using SearX, you can be sure your search results won't be tracked. It is an open-source project based on the work of volunteers. No ads. No tracking.

Google can be your last resort search engine, if you are concerned with privacy, with Duck Duck Go your first choice, or some others, such as Startpage, or SearX, introduced here.

Ubuntu or Debian users can even have their own instance of SearX to have complete control. Instructions : https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/dev/in ... stallation

Further reading :
Searx, A New Internet Search Engine
https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2019/10/sear ... ngine.html
Public Searx instances
https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/ ... nd-running

Hi labbe5.

Thanks for this info, but you forgot the URL for SearX...

BFN.

https://vitux.com/how-to-install-searx- ... untu/#main

A week-end project.

Searx is a decentralized and non-commercial search engine that respects user’s privacy. It is one of the best and free private search engines that aggregate results from more than 70 search services, including Google and Bing. It does not track or collect user’s data.
But the question is this why we need to have our own private search instance. The answer is this because public instances do not respect the user’s privacy. They are operated by unknown parties, and you have to completely rely on them. They may even log, aggregate, and sell user’s web request and data without letting them know and also sell this data to a third party. However, if you run your private instance, everything will be in your control, including the logging data, confidential data, and the source code. And you can achieve all these features with Searx.

Further reading :
Privacy-respecting metasearch engine
https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

Bionicpup64 8.0 Puppy Package Manager(PPM)
Updated PPM database.

SearX is listed if you do a search for it.
However, seems it also wants to install 41 dependencies.
Not sure I want to install all of that to get this.