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SearXNG
Last updated 2026-10-09 · benchmark measured 2026-10-09 — deterministic & reproducible
SearXNG privacy-respecting open metasearch engine pulling results from YaCy.
SearXNG at a glance
SearXNG at search.my-yacy-node.org is a free, self-hosted metasearch engine that shows results pulled from an automated crawl and the YaCy peer-to-peer network without tracking users.
Good for
- Privacy-conscious users who do not want their searches tracked
- People interested in decentralized, peer-to-peer search instead of a single provider
- Researchers and alternative search users looking for results sourced from distributed peers
Questions people ask
Does this SearXNG instance track my searches?
No, it is described as privacy-respecting and does not track users.
Where do the search results come from?
Results come from an automated crawl and from the YaCy peer-to-peer network, rather than a single search provider.
Does the instance maintainer control or approve the content shown?
No, the maintainer does not create, select, or approve the content, and does not control what other peers distribute.
Is SearXNG open source?
Yes, it is open source, with source code and an issue tracker available.
What do I do if I find illegal or inappropriate content in the results?
You can report illegal or inappropriate content to the instance maintainer.
Written by Legit.Show from search.my-yacy-node.org on 2026-10-16. It does not change the score.
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Legit.Show scored SearXNG 79/100 on 2026-10-09, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/search-my-yacy-node-org/2026-10-09
Is SearXNG production-ready?
Legit.Show scores SearXNG 79 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on SearXNG (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Performance; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 100/100
- Accessibility — 92/100
- Security — 100/100How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
- Privacy — 25/100How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 100/100
- Discoverability — 35/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 764 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 2 of 2 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who it's for
Privacy-conscious users · Decentralization advocates · Researchers · Alternative search users
Sources and updates
- Description
- Taken from search.my-yacy-node.org's own website on 2026-10-09.
- Benchmark
- Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-10-09.
Put together from public information, without SearXNG's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.
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