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Re:Searx – A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine by scott_ni on Thursday December 15, 2016 @12:11PM (#13186154)
This seem pretty cool! Are there browser plug-ins available?

I currently use DuckDuckGo. I'd switch to this if they implement the bang syntax, which I use constantly.

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Re:Searx – A privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine by rvern on Thursday December 15, 2016 @07:20PM (#13190009)
You can use bangs: https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/user/search_syntax.html. Instead of redirecting you, it changes the engines that are used for the search, so you still get anonymity. Also, you can use smart bookmarks[1][2] to get essentially the same functionality as bangs, but done directly by your web browser when you type keywords in the address bar, which skips a unneeded request to the search engine.

[1]: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Using_keyword_searches

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Bookmarks

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