How to Geek: “SearXNG is an open-source meta search engine. The “meta” part means that it can query multiple search engines and display the best results from the pool. Currently, it supports some 70 search engines. It’s also completely free and shows no ads anywhere…Most importantly, though, it feels like searching the internet before generative AI arrived on the scene…To customize the search engine results, click the little gear icon on the search page. Head to the “Engines” tab, where you can decide which search engines you want to enable. Also, notice the codes beginning with !. These are called “bangs” and you can use these codes to target any of these engines directly. For example, I can start a search with !yt, and it’ll give me results from YouTube. You can expand a video and watch it without leaving the search page. Pretty handy. The Images tab also aggregates results from the meta engines, and you can customize exactly which image search engines you want to get the results from. You can flip through the slideshow and save images by right-clicking on the previews. For maps, SearXNG defaults to OpenStreetMap or Apple Maps…”