SearchTLD
Privacy Respecting and Fast Meta-Search Engine
IMPORTANT: The website will be down for at least a week, I have been struggling to work on this project more due to external obligations, contributions are needed more than ever right now to ensure the project stays alive. I will be trying my best to release at least bug fixes for SearchTLD. Thanks to everyone who contributed and used SearchTLD.
Help the project grow
If you like what this project is doing, please leave a star on our GitHub repo. It really helps make the project more well-known.
Features of SearchTLD
- Cleans URLs of tracking elements.
- Blocks harmful domains.
- Fallbacks to multiple search engines to ensure uptime.
- Rate Limiting for instances to protect against DDOS and Spam attacks.
- Redirect to privacy friendly frontends.
- Very easy to self-host using docker and docker-compose.
- Special queries (IP, UserAgent, Base64 Encoding, etc.).
- Easy to use and beautiful UI.
- Advanced API with language settings and fallbacking.
- Libre JavaScript. (Not required)
- Works perfectly through tor.
- Fully open-source and protected under the AGPL v3.0.
Self Hosting
There are guides to self hosting on our GitHub wiki!
Join our Telegram Group!
Matrix & IRC have been moved over to Telegram for convenience. Matrix was really heavy on our servers and Telegram is also less prone to bugs and crashes.
You can join our Telegram @ t.me/searchtld
Rules for Telegram
- Be nice to each other.
- Do not say/use any racial, sexist, homophobic/transphobic, antisemetic, xenophobic... slurs.
- If you have any questions, feel free to ask
- Do not spam the channel.
Speed comparison: SearchTLD vs Other Search Engines
| SearchTLD | DuckDuckGo | Bing | Yahoo | Yandex | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Requests | 14 | 216 | 50 | 330 | 50 | 139 |
| Time till website fully loaded | 2.04s | 42.66 s | 2.27s | 5.91s | 5.63s | 46.62 |
| More info on this article |
Read our news!
We now have a page dedicated to news about the website, including the source code of how we make the pages. It's available here!
Blog unavailable
The blog is being reworked so it will be offline for a while.
Instances
If you run an instance of SearchTLD and want it placed on the list open an issue.
| URL | Country |
|---|---|
| searchtld.com | NL |
| emll.xyz | SE |
Instance Rules
- Do not incorporate any proprietary code.
- Do not use cloudflare.
- Do not remove the original donation link.