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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
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I wanted to share a personal update with the community: I have shifted my
active development focus away from this project to a new search tool I
have been building called Hister _.

Why?
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Searx is a metasearch engine, which means it is fundamentally dependent on
third-party search engines. This creates inherent limitations that are
difficult to solve within the current architecture:

- Results are only as good as what upstream engines expose
- Privacy guarantees are partial because requests still leave your machine
- Relevance ranking is limited to what scraped results provide
- There is no persistent memory of what you have already read or found useful

Hister takes a different approach. Instead of querying other engines, it
indexes content you choose (web pages, local files, browser history) into a
fully local, self-hosted full-text search index. This eliminates most of the
conceptual weaknesses that come with being a metasearch engine while giving
you complete control over your data.

I still believe searx was a worthwhile project and I am grateful for everyone
who contributed and used it.

If the ideas behind searx resonate with you, I invite you to take a look at
Hister. It may address things you always wanted from a personal search tool.

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Searx is no longer maintained. Thank you for your support and all your contributions.

.. figure:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/searx/searx/master/searx/static/themes/oscar/img/logo_searx_a.png
   :target: https://searx.github.io/searx/
   :alt: searX
   :width: 100%
   :align: center

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|searx install|
|searx homepage|
|searx wiki|
|AGPL License|
|Issues|
|commits|
|OpenCollective searx backers|
|OpenCollective searx sponsors|

Privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine_ / pronunciation sɜːks.

.. _metasearch engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine

.. |searx install| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/-install-blue
   :target: https://searx.github.io/searx/admin/installation.html

.. |searx homepage| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/-homepage-blue
   :target: https://searx.github.io/searx

.. |searx wiki| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/-wiki-blue
   :target: https://github.com/searx/searx/wiki

.. |AGPL License|  image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/license-AGPL-blue.svg
   :target: https://github.com/searx/searx/blob/master/LICENSE

.. |Issues| image:: https://img.shields.io/github/issues/searx/searx?color=yellow&label=issues
   :target: https://github.com/searx/searx/issues

.. |PR| image:: https://img.shields.io/github/issues-pr-raw/searx/searx?color=yellow&label=PR
   :target: https://github.com/searx/searx/pulls

.. |commits| image:: https://img.shields.io/github/commit-activity/y/searx/searx?color=yellow&label=commits
   :target: https://github.com/searx/searx/commits/master

.. |OpenCollective searx backers| image:: https://o