In addition to not tracking you and being fully open-source, there are 12 search categories in its settings with literally hundreds of available search engines.
SearXNG is great but unfortunately Google frequently stops working as an engine in SearxNG because its anti-bot and rate‑limiting systems detect SearxNG traffic as automated scraping and either return CAPTCHAs, “access denied/suspended” messages, or HTTP 429 “too many requests” errors.
Their devs admit that there’s no simple solution because Google actively hunts and stops this traffic once a fix is implemented. The other search engines still work but I tend to get irrelevant nonsense as results. I have started using StartPage and am pretty happy with it so far as another option for a metasearchengine.
The other search engines still work but I tend to get irrelevant nonsense as results
Yahoo and Duckduckgo return pretty good results for me.