Questions regarding SearXNG

Privacy Questions
1

Hello there!
I’ve been switching search engines for a very long time and recently tried SearXNG and liked the pirv.au instance and liked it (no particular reason which I chose it, it was just the first instance listed on the instances list with a GUI I liked). However, I do have a lot of questions related to it and haven’t found a lot of answers to my questions in other sites like reddit.

  1. The only search engine priv.au and many more instances use is google so what will happen if I add more engines like mojeek and bing?

  2. If I only use google as my search engine what is the difference between it and startpage? And if I have startpage in my engines list will I get google results that are proxied twice?

  3. Is there any way to remove the tabs below the search tab? I only use the first 4 and the others makes it look bloated IMO. (Imgur: The magic of the Internet)

4

Why not give it a try?

5

Yes, right now its my default search engine but I still don’t understand what it really does and if I could remove those tabs. Still its got a pretty good UI with good search results.

6

like how do the different search engines mix? I guess the top results would be mixed but is there a hierarchy for other search engines?

7
  1. More mixed results
  2. Well yes, proxied twice. Priv.au still can collect all your queries, so they do not care what you use.
  3. Use uBo to remove web elements.
8

tysmmmm

9

Regarding point 3 on tab bloat, I’d recommend opening an issue on their GitHub for it as a feature to optionally enable / disable in settings. Seems like it would be a decent feature to have.