SearXNG

SearXNG is a privacy-respecting metasearch engine that aggregates results from dozens of search services into a single, comprehensive interface. Unlike commercial search engines that track queries, build user profiles, and filter results based on personalization algorithms, SearXNG provides unfiltered access to the web's information without surveillance. The platform has become popular among privacy advocates, security professionals, and users in regions with internet censorship who need anonymous search capabilities that don't create records linking search queries to individuals or IP addresses.

Common Use Cases

Privacy-conscious users deploy SearXNG as their default search engine to avoid the tracking and profiling inherent in commercial search services like Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo that still collect some metadata. Journalists and researchers use SearXNG to conduct sensitive research without creating search histories that could be subpoenaed or leaked in data breaches, with the metasearch approach providing results from multiple sources for verification and cross-referencing. Organizations with strict data privacy policies run internal SearXNG instances for employee use, ensuring corporate research activities don't leak to third parties through search queries. Security professionals investigating threats use SearXNG to search without tipping off adversaries who might monitor search engine queries for signs of investigation. Families concerned about children's online privacy deploy SearXNG to provide safe search capabilities without the behavioral tracking and targeted advertising that commercial search engines build around young users.

Key Features

• Metasearch aggregation from dozens of search engines and platforms simultaneously
• No search history storage or personal data collection
• Anonymous searching with no user tracking or profiling
• Support for web, image, video, news, and specialized category searches
• Reduced search bias through multi-source result aggregation
• Configurable search engines and result filtering
• Multiple interface themes and language support
• Integration with various specialized search providers
• Client-side request handling preventing server-side tracking
• Customizable search categories and result preferences
• No cookies or tracking scripts
• Open-source codebase auditable for privacy verification

Why deploy SearXNG on Hostinger VPS

Deploying SearXNG on Hostinger VPS provides a personal search engine under your exclusive control, eliminating reliance on public SearXNG instances that might be monitored, logging queries despite privacy claims, or suffering from performance issues due to shared usage. Unlike public instances where your searches pass through infrastructure controlled by unknown operators who could potentially log queries or inject modifications, your VPS ensures complete control over the search pipeline. The dedicated resources prevent the slowdowns common on popular public instances where hundreds of users compete for limited capacity, delivering consistently fast search results even during peak usage hours. With self-hosted infrastructure, you can customize which search providers to include, excluding engines that cooperate with government surveillance or implement aggressive geo-filtering while adding specialized engines relevant to your research needs. For organizations with compliance requirements around data sovereignty or attorney-client privilege, VPS deployment ensures no search queries leave controlled infrastructure where they could be subject to third-party logging or government data requests targeting public search services. The persistent configuration storage allows you to maintain customized search engine selections, interface preferences, and filtering rules across container updates without reconfiguration, building a personalized search experience that commercial search engines cannot replicate without destroying the privacy guarantees that make metasearch valuable.