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The searxng tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussion of the open-source metasearch engine that aggregates results from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia and other providers into one ad-free page. Tagged content examines self-hosting SearXNG, including the privacy trade-offs involved: running your own instance gives you control over which engines see your queries, but a home-hosted server can expose your IP address to those enabled engines. The topic fits naturally alongside broader Windows and self-hosting interests, appealing to readers weighing public instances against private deployments and thinking carefully about what self-hosting actually protects.
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    SearXNG Self-Hosting Exposes Your Home IP to Enabled Engines

    SearXNG is a free, open-source metasearch engine. It sends your query to services such as Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Wikipedia and shows the combined results on one plain page, without advertising. You can use a public server or run your own. In a first-person piece published September 23...