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My custom branche(s) on searx, a meta-search engine
commit: cfb06048acee3573cb92bf44d2e70234e31d6a76
parent: 822bf2f36d715531d40cbd84cd825c5bd4da3a7a
Author: asciimoo <asciimoo@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun,  1 Dec 2013 16:24:52 +0100

[enh] faq updates

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Msearx/templates/about.html16++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/searx/templates/about.html b/searx/templates/about.html @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <div class="row"> <h1>About <a href="/">searx</a></h1> - <p>Searx is a meta-search engine inspired by the <a href="http://seeks-project.info/">seeks-project</a>. + <p>Searx is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine">metasearch engine</a> inspired by the <a href="http://seeks-project.info/">seeks-project</a>. <br />It tries to provide basic privacy by mixing your queries with those from others while avoiding storing search data. For all browsers (except chrom*) queries are made using a POST request. Thus they don't show up in our logs, nor in your url history. For Chrom* users there is an exception, searx is used from the search bar, it issues GET requests. <br />You can add it to your browsers search bar and even make it your default search engine. </p> @@ -34,11 +34,19 @@ <h2 id="faq">FAQ</h2> <h3>Trust</h3> -<p>It's ok if you don't trust us regarding the logs, <a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx">take the code</a> and run it yourself for your friends! decentralize!</p> +<p>It's ok if you don't trust us regarding the logs, <a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx">take the code</a> and run it yourself! decentralize!</p> <h3>Firefox engines plz?</h3> <p><a href="#" onclick="window.external.AddSearchProvider(window.location.protocol + '//' + window.location.host + '/opensearch.xml')"> Install</a> searx as a search engine on any version of Firefox!</p> - - +<h3>New engines?</h3> +<p><ul> + <li>Edit your engines.cfg, see <a href="https://raw.github.com/asciimoo/searx/master/engines.cfg_sample">sample config</a></li> + <li>Create your custom engine module, check the <a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/blob/master/examples/basic_engine.py">example engine</a></li> + </ul>Don't forget to restart searx after config edit. +</p> +<h3>WSGI support?</h3> +<p><a href="https://about.okhin.fr/posts/Searx/">Okhin wrote</a> a great and detailed article about the setup.</p> +<h3>How to debug engines?</h3> +<p><a href="/stats">Stats page</a> contains some useful data about the used engines.</p> </div> {% endblock %}