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authorMarkus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarIT.de>2023-01-07 15:03:12 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2023-01-07 15:03:12 +0100
commit4e355564d2e11e4e86826a093c1f450b43adce4c (patch)
tree5ca2367586fb9968eadcbdf514d99aae435a4325 /searx/infopage/en
parentcb7b091666f2bc449e6ccc799105bdc0afd3b75e (diff)
parent212acf7f7bbcd88771d9590729766b5920d4d23e (diff)
Merge pull request #1903 from LalleSX/patch-1
Added info about adding the enginge to the brownser
Diffstat (limited to 'searx/infopage/en')
-rw-r--r--searx/infopage/en/about.md10
-rw-r--r--searx/infopage/en/search-syntax.md4
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/searx/infopage/en/about.md b/searx/infopage/en/about.md
index 48abda68f..e10f54d53 100644
--- a/searx/infopage/en/about.md
+++ b/searx/infopage/en/about.md
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ SearXNG is a [metasearch engine], aggregating the results of other
{{link('search engines', 'preferences')}} while not storing information about
its users.
-The SearXNG project is driven by an open community, come join us on
-Matrix if you have questions or just want to chat about SearXNG at [#searxng:matrix.org]
+The SearXNG project is driven by an open community, come join us on Matrix if
+you have questions or just want to chat about SearXNG at [#searxng:matrix.org]
Make SearXNG better.
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ If you do care about privacy, want to be a conscious user, or otherwise believe
in digital freedom, make SearXNG your default search engine or run it on your
own server!
-
## How do I set it as the default search engine?
SearXNG supports [OpenSearch]. For more information on changing your default
@@ -39,6 +38,11 @@ search engine, see your browser's documentation:
- [Chromium]-based browsers only add websites that the user navigates to without
a path.
+When adding a search engine, there must be no duplicates with the same name. If
+you encounter a problem where you cannot add the search engine, you can either:
+
+- remove the duplicate (default name: SearXNG) or
+- contact the owner to give the instance a different name than the default.
## How does it work?
diff --git a/searx/infopage/en/search-syntax.md b/searx/infopage/en/search-syntax.md
index fa54017a2..99e1e5fd8 100644
--- a/searx/infopage/en/search-syntax.md
+++ b/searx/infopage/en/search-syntax.md
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ To select language filter use a `:` prefix. To give an example:
## `!!` external bangs
-SearXNG supports the external bangs from [DuckDuckGo]. To directly jump to a external
-search page use the `!!` prefix. To give an example:
+SearXNG supports the external bangs from [DuckDuckGo]. To directly jump to a
+external search page use the `!!` prefix. To give an example:
- search Wikipedia by a custom language