About

Wyldsearch is a private search homepage. Type a query, get results. That is the whole product.

What we do not do

• No accounts
• No cookies
• No advertising
• No search profiles
• No third-party analytics

How search works

The page you are looking at is the front end. Queries go to a same-origin API that does not set cookies and does not store the query. It fans out to privacy-respecting sources and returns a combined page.

Web results currently come from DuckDuckGo’s HTML version (via the proxy) or, when you attach one, your own SearxNG instance. Wikipedia is the side card, not the first result in the list. Images come from Wikimedia Commons. News from Wikinews and web results. Videos from SepiaSearch (PeerTube).

When you run SearxNG on a VPS, set SEARXNG_URL on the server (see the searxng/ kit in the source tree). You can turn that instance on or off in Settings along with DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, Commons, Wikinews, and PeerTube. Engines such as Google or Bing then come from your SearxNG config, not from scraping those sites here.

Appearance (dark / light / system), interface language, a background picture, GeauxWeather place, and which sources to query are stored in this browser only, never as cookies and never on the server. A background uploaded from a file stays on the device. A background URL is loaded by your browser from that host.

The homepage can show a GeauxWeather chip (opt-in place). Searches like “weather Baton Rouge” also get a GeauxWeather card. Forecasts come from Open-Meteo; the chip links to geauxweather.com.

The homepage can also show a U.S. news column from U.S. section feeds (NPR National, New York Times U.S., CBS U.S., ABC U.S.). World and international stories are left out. Wyldsearch fetches those RSS feeds; your browser only visits a news site if you click a headline. You can turn the column off in Settings.

What still leaks

Opening a result sends your browser to that site. Result links use rel="noreferrer" so the destination does not see wyldsearch.org as the referrer. The destination still sees your IP, the same as any browser.

Wikipedia, Commons, DuckDuckGo, and PeerTube hosts see the query from the proxy’s IP, not as a browser profile on your machine. For the strongest privacy, point Wyldsearch at a SearxNG instance you operate.

License

Wyldsearch is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See the LICENSE file in the source tree.

Domain

The intended home is wyldsearch.org. This front end is meant to be published first; the custom domain attaches after DNS is pointed at the host.