About JoshWho Search

JoshWho Search is a metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing information about its users.

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Why use JoshWho Search?

Search without Shame - No big brother peeking behind your shoulder.
JoshWho Search finds it all, not just websites. PDFs, Torrents, Music, Videos and more...
JoshWho Search may not offer you personalised results like Google, but it does keep your privacy safe, and doesn't generate a profile about you.
JoshWho Search doesn't care about what you search for, never shares search data with any third party, and it can't be used to compromise you.
JoshWho Search is free software, the code is 100% open and you can help to make it better. See more on github.

If you do care about privacy, want to be a conscious user, or otherwise believe in digital freedom, make JoshWho Search your default search engine, or run a instance of Searx on your own server. We also always recomend the use of a top of the line VPN.

Technical details - How does it work?

JoshWho Search is a metasearch engine, inspired by the seeks project revived by Open Source Searx. 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 Chromium-based browsers*). Therefore they show up in neither our logs, nor your url history. In the case of Chromium-based browser users there is an exception: JoshWho Search uses the search bar to perform GET requests. JoshWho Search can be added to your browser's search bar; moreover, it can be set as the default search engine.

How to set as the default search engine?

JoshWho Search supports OpenSearch. For more information on changing your default search engine, see your browser's documentation:

Firefox
Microsoft Edge
Chromium-based browsers Like Brave, Decenter, Chrome