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    SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled as we are hosting it.

    > This meta search can be hosted on cloud or on raspberrypi or simple VM Instances as well using docker
    1. Install docker and docker-compose

    > For ubuntu, mint and debian users
    ```
    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install docker.io
    sudo apt install docker-compose
    or
    sudo dnf install docker
    sudo dnf install docker-compose
    ```

    > For arch users
    ```
    sudo pacman -Syu
    sudo pacman -S docker
    sudo pacman -S docker-compose
    ```

    2. After Installing the docker and docker compose as well

    ```
    mkdir searchengine
    cd searchengine
    export PORT=8080
    docker pull searxng/searxng
    docker run --rm \
    -d -p ${PORT}:8080 \
    -v "${PWD}/searxng:/etc/searxng" \
    -e "BASE_URL=http://localhost:$PORT/" \
    -e "INSTANCE_NAME=my-instance" \
    searxng/searxng
    ```

    3. Open your web browser and visit the URL and modify the settings as required:

    > http://localhost:8080
    ![Searxng Image](https://www.maketecheasier.com/assets/uploads/2022/06/searxng-install-00-featured-image-800x400.jpg.webp)


    > Or just want to use Online Searxng Instances hosted by other people: https://searx.space/
    I personally don't recommend it.