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SearXNG installs itself on /usr/local/searxng/searxng-src, with the main source code in searxng-src directory.

To hack the results, the file is webapp.py in /usr/local/searxng/searxng-src/searx/webapp.py

The function in webapp.py is...

@app.route('/search', methods=[['GET', 'POST']])
def search():
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One sqlite3 database. Named: searxng_distributed_cache.db

1. stores the search terms
2. stores the urls

The database is distributed, the keywords have to go to maintainers where crawling builds/develops the database.

Proposed searXNG options:

• use cache
• update the cache
• disclosure to end user

Benefits:

• turns searXNG into a full search engine built from caching results
• searches are against a local file, so it speeds up searching significantly
• offline searching