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authorMarkus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>2020-03-26 13:45:37 +0100
committerMarkus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>2020-03-26 13:45:37 +0100
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Minor improvements of the HTML *about* page
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
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@@ -18,22 +18,6 @@
<hr />
- <h2>Technical details - How does it work?</h2>
-
- <p>
- Searx is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine">metasearch engine</a>,
- inspired by the <a href="https://beniz.github.io/seeks/">seeks project</a>.
-
- It provides basic privacy by mixing your queries with searches on other
- platforms without storing search data. Queries are made using a POST request
- on every browser (except chrome*). Therefore they show up in neither our
- logs, nor your url history. In case of Chrome* users there is an exception,
- searx uses the search bar to perform GET requests.
-
- Searx can be added to your browser's search bar; moreover, it can be set as
- the default search engine.
- </p>
-
<h2>Why use searx?</h2>
<ul>
@@ -50,13 +34,30 @@
better. See more on <a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx">github</a>.
</li>
</ul>
+
<p>
If you do care about privacy, want to be a conscious user, or otherwise
believe in digital freedom, make searx your default search engine or run it
on your own server
</p>
- <h2 id='add to browser'>Can it be set as the default search engine?</h2>
+ <h2>Technical details - How does it work?</h2>
+
+ <p>
+ Searx is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine">metasearch engine</a>,
+ inspired by the <a href="https://beniz.github.io/seeks/">seeks project</a>.
+
+ It provides basic privacy by mixing your queries with searches on other
+ platforms without storing search data. Queries are made using a POST request
+ on every browser (except chrome*). Therefore they show up in neither our
+ logs, nor your url history. In case of Chrome* users there is an exception,
+ searx uses the search bar to perform GET requests.
+
+ Searx can be added to your browser's search bar; moreover, it can be set as
+ the default search engine.
+ </p>
+
+ <h2 id='add to browser'>How to set as the default search engine?</h2>
<dt>Firefox</dt>
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@
searx as a search engine on any version of Firefox! (javascript required)
</dd>
- <h2>How to debug engines?</h2>
+ <h2>Where to find anonymous usage statistics of this instance ?</h2>
<p>
<a href="{{ url_for('stats') }}">Stats page</a> contains some useful data about the engines used.
@@ -75,7 +76,7 @@
<p>
Searx appreciates your concern regarding logs, so take the
- code from the <a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx">orgin searx projekct</a> and
+ code from the <a href="https://github.com/asciimoo/searx">orgin searx project</a> and
run it yourself!
</p>
<p>