Amnesia

Search the web. Remember nothing.

Privacy-first search aggregator. No tracking, no ads, no cookies, no search history. 150+ search engines via SearXNG + encrypted VPN tunnel. Self-hosted.

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Features

• 150+ search engines — Google, Brave, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Yahoo, Startpage, Mojeek, Qwant, and many more
• Multi-source aggregation — pulls and merges results from multiple engines simultaneously
• Category tabs — All, Images, News, Videos, Music, Science, Social, Files
• Engine tags — see which sources contributed each result
• Autocomplete — search suggestions as you type
• Pagination — full result navigation
• Search timing — see how fast your query resolved
• OpenSearch integration — add Amnesia as your browser's default search engine
• Dark/Light mode — respects system preference, toggleable
• Zero tracking — no cookies, no analytics, no search history stored
• Self-contained — single HTML file (~31KB), inline CSS/JS, no external dependencies

Screenshot

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  amnesia                          ☀ / ☾      │
│                                              │
│  ┌──────────────────────────────────┐        │
│  │  Search the web...               │  🔍    │
│  └──────────────────────────────────┘        │
│                                              │
│  All    Images    News    Videos              │
│                                              │
│  ▸ Result Title — source.com      [Google]   │
│    Description of the search result...       │
│                                              │
│  ▸ Result Title — other.com       [Brave]    │
│    Description of the search result...       │
│                                              │
│  ◂ 1  2  3  4  5 ▸        0.34s · 47 results│
└──────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Self-Host

With Docker (standalone)

docker run -d --name amnesia \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  searxng/searxng

# Serve amnesia-search.html via any static file server
# pointing to your SearXNG instance

With AskAlf (recommended)

Amnesia is included in the AskAlf webhost stack with VPN tunneling, rate limiting, and Cloudflare tunnel:

curl -fsSL https://get.askalf.org | bash

Routes all search traffic through an encrypted WireGuard VPN tunnel — search providers never see your real IP.

Search Engines

150+ engines across all categories:

Category	Engines
Web	Google, Brave, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Startpage, Mojeek, Qwant, Yahoo, Yandex, Yep, Ask
News	Google News, Brave News, Bing News, DDG News, Yahoo News, Wikinews
Images	Google, Brave, Bing, DDG, Unsplash, Pexels, Pixabay, Flickr, Pinterest
Videos	Google, YouTube, Brave, Bing, DDG, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Rumble, Odysee
Science	Google Scholar, arXiv, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex
Social	Reddit, Lemmy, Mastodon, 9gag
Music	Genius, Bandcamp, Soundcloud, Deezer
Dev	GitHub, GitLab, StackOverflow, npm, PyPI, Docker Hub, HuggingFace
Files	1337x, Piratebay, Library Genesis, Anna's Archive
Maps	Apple Maps, OpenStreetMap

All engines routed through VPN — search providers see the VPN exit IP, not yours.

Architecture

Browser → Cloudflare Tunnel → Nginx (cache + rate limit)
                                  ↓
                              amnesia-search.html (static, 31KB)
                                  ↓ (API calls)
                              SearXNG (150+ engines) → Gluetun VPN → Search Engines
                                  ↑
                              Redis (result cache)

• Single HTML file — no build step, no framework, no dependencies
• SearXNG backend — meta-search aggregator, no API keys needed
• Cloudflare Tunnel — zero-trust access, DDoS protection
• Gluetun VPN — all outbound search queries encrypted through WireGuard (ProtonVPN)
• Nginx — response caching (60s TTL), rate limiting, security headers
• Redis — SearXNG result caching for faster repeated queries

Privacy

	Amnesia	Google	Bing	DuckDuckGo
Cookies	None	Yes	Yes	Yes
Search history	None	Stored	Stored	None*
IP logging	None	Yes	Yes	Partial
Ads	None	Yes	Yes	Yes
Tracking pixels	None	Yes	Yes	None
JavaScript required	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

*DuckDuckGo doesn't store searches but does log metadata.

Amnesia stores nothing. No accounts. No cookies. No server-side logs. The SearXNG backend proxies queries to search engines — they see the VPN exit IP, not yours.

Stack

HTML · CSS · JavaScript · SearXNG · Nginx · Redis · Gluetun VPN · Cloudflare Tunnel · ProtonVPN

Related

• AskAlf — self-hosted AI workforce platform (includes Amnesia in the webhost stack)
• SearXNG — the meta-search engine that powers Amnesia
• Gluetun — VPN tunnel for containerized services

License

MIT — askalf.org · Live at amnesia.tax