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1 # Searx Tools 2 3 The searx tools help you to maintain a privacy‐aware search in the web. 4 5 Searx[0] is mainly hosted at searx.me, which creates a burden for the 6 hobby developers of this project. The goal is to decentralize. Your 7 first goal should be to setup your own searx instance[1]. But, if your 8 instance is working, publish it. If you are the only user of the searx 9 instance it is easy to track you down. The privacy gain of searx is to 10 have many users and hide yourself behind the flare of common search 11 queries to all kind of searxh websites. 12 13 The searx tools help you to maintain this. 14 15 ## Usage 16 17 Initialize the ~/.searx-instances file: 18 19 % searx-instances-update 20 21 Get a searx instance: 22 23 % searx-instances-random 24 25 Plumb[2] the search for some query: 26 27 % searx where is my house? 28 29 ## Updating the .searc-instances file 30 31 You can use a cron job for this. Beware that as of writing (2017‐05‐13), 32 the instances website is really slow, so I decided to only download the 33 working instances on demand. 34 35 ## Replacing plumb[2] 36 37 Open the file »searx« and change »plumb« to for example »xdg-open«. 38 39 ## Bugs 40 41 Send them to: 42 43 Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net> 44 45 Have fun! 46 47 [0] https://searx.me 48 [1] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Installation 49 [2] http://git.r-36.net/plumber 50