[ColinHayhurst]

SearX is a project which we respect and a positive contribution to improving search choice. Consideration of how it might be being used is wise.

It's also wise to do due diligence on any company/service where you are revealing sensitive personal information. Traffic coming from Google in 2006, for sensitive medical search queries was a catalysts for us going public in 2006 on our strict no-tracking policy and we maintained that position.

We have yet to be contacted by authorities, but you'll have to trust us on that one for now. Since we don't log any personal or identifying data at all, we would have nothing to share [0]. You can read about our investors on our blog.

Building and maintaining a search engine with independent infrastructure has a huge challenge and has meant building proprietary IP over many years. Since we refuse to use techniques used in growth hacking such as analytics from you know who, and all tools involving any tracking, marketing is a bigger challenge than it is for companies without strong principles. It has been a mammoth effort, by mostly our founder whose story you can read here [1].

[0] https://www.mojeek.com/about/privacy/ [1] https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/03/to-track-or-not-to-track.htm...