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Many WEB-search engines (e.g. startpage) response best results if a **region**
is selected, most often a language filter is also in the properties of the
WEB-search engine.
hint::
The **search language** should not be mixed: sometimes the language argument
is just the language of the UI with none effect on the result list.
To summarize:
Some WEB-search engines have language codes (e.g. `ca`) in their properties,
other have a region codes (e.g. `ca-ES`), some have regions and languages in
their properties (e.g. startpage) and other engine do not have any language or
region support.
In the past we generalized *language* over all kind of engines without taking
into mind that several WEB-search engines have best results when there is a
region selected.
This *language-centric* view in SearXNG is misleading when we need
region-codes to parameterize a engine request!
This patch replaces the *language-centric* view by a "language / region" view.
Conclusions:
With regions we can't say any longer that a engine supports *this or that*
language. By example: when the user selects 'zh' and a engine supports only
region codes like 'zh-TW' or 'zh-CN' we do not what results the user expects /
similar with 'en' or 'fr when the engine needs a region tag.
- Since it is unclear what the user expects by his language selection, we can't
assert a property that says: "supports_selected_language"
The feature is replaced in the UI by the wider sense of "language_support",
what stands for:
The engine has some kind of language support, either
by a region tag or by a language tag.
- A list of "supported_languages" does not make sense when there are regions
responsible for the result of an engine.
The "supported_languages" has been removed from the /config URL.
- The `has_language` test in the `searx/search/checker/impl.py` has been removed
since it does not cover engines with region support.
If there is a need for such a test we can implement new tests after all
engines with language (region) support has been moved to the *supported
properites* scheme (`'type': 'engine_properties'`) / see commit previous
commit:
[mod] engines_languages.json: add new type EngineProperties
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
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If you are looking for running instances, ready to use, then visit searx.space_.
Otherwise jump to the user_, admin_ and developer_ handbooks you will find on
our homepage_.
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|SearXNG homepage|
|SearXNG wiki|
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.. _user: https://docs.searxng.org/user
.. _admin: https://docs.searxng.org/admin
.. _developer: https://docs.searxng.org/dev
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Contact
=======
Come join us if you have questions or just want to chat about SearXNG.
Matrix
`#searxng:matrix.org <https://matrix.to/#/#searxng:matrix.org>`_
IRC
`#searxng on libera.chat <https://web.libera.chat/?channel=#searxng>`_
which is bridged to Matrix.
Differences to searx
====================
SearXNG is a fork of `searx`_. Here are some of the changes:
.. _searx: https://github.com/searx/searx
User experience
---------------
- Huge update of the simple theme:
* usable on desktop, tablet and mobile
* light and dark versions (you can choose in the preferences)
* support right-to-left languages
* `see the screenshots <https://dev.searxng.org/screenshots.html>`_
- the translations are up to date, you can contribute on `Weblate`_
- the preferences page has been updated:
* you can see which engines are reliable or not
* engines are grouped inside each tab
* each engine has a description
- thanks to the anonymous metrics, it is easier to report a bug of an engine and
thus engines get fixed more quickly
- if you don't want any metrics to be recorded, you can `disable them on the server
<https://docs.searxng.org/admin/engines/settings.html#general>`_
- administrator can `block and/or replace the URLs in the search results
<https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/5c1c0817c3996c5670a545d05831d234d21e6217/searx/settings.yml#L191-L199>`_
Setup
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- you don't need `Morty`_ to proxy the images even on a public instance
- you don't need `Filtron`_ to block bots, we implemented the builtin `limiter`_
- you get a well maintained `Docker image`_, now also built for ARM64 and ARM/v7 architectures
- alternatively we have up to date installation scripts
.. _Docker image: https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker
Contributing is easier
----------------------
- readable debug log
- contributions to the themes are made easier, check out our `Development
Quickstart`_ guide
- a lot of code cleanup and bug fixes
- the dependencies are up to date
.. _Morty: https://github.com/asciimoo/morty
.. _Filtron: https://github.com/searxng/filtron
.. _limiter: https://docs.searxng.org/src/searx.plugins.limiter.html
.. _Weblate: https://weblate.bubu1.eu/projects/searxng/searxng/
.. _Development Quickstart: https://docs.searxng.org/dev/quickstart.html
Translations
============
We need translators, suggestions are welcome at
https://weblate.bubu1.eu/projects/searxng/searxng/
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Make a donation
===============
You can support the SearXNG project by clicking on the donation page:
https://docs.searxng.org/donate.html