Own your search

amnesia

Privacy-first metasearch — many engines at once, behind a tunnel, remembering nothing.

github → MIT the reach search

01What it is

Every search you run is a confession, and most engines keep the transcript. Cookies, accounts, a logged IP, a history that follows you between sessions — the query is the product, and so are you. amnesia is the front end that gives the query without giving you away.

It is a single static page in front of a SearXNG aggregator. One query fans out to many engines at once, and the results come back merged and tagged by source — but the engines never see your address, because every request leaves through an encrypted VPN tunnel and they see the exit IP instead. There are no cookies, no accounts, no server-side search logs, and no AI reading over your shoulder. It is live at amnesia.tax.

amnesia · self-host

# a SearXNG backend, then serve the page
docker run -d --name amnesia \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  searxng/searxng

# point the static HTML at your instance

Fig. 1 — one container, one static file, no build step.

02What it does

Asks many engines at once

One query goes out to a wide field of sources at the same time, and the results come back merged into a single list. Each result keeps an engine tag, so you can see which source contributed it instead of trusting one ranking. Tabs split the same search across web, images, news, videos, science, and more.

Routes every query through a tunnel

The aggregator's outbound requests leave through an encrypted VPN tunnel (Gluetun over ProtonVPN). Search providers see the tunnel's exit IP, not yours — the queries never leave as identifiably you.

Remembers nothing

No cookies, no accounts, no analytics, no server-side search logs. There is no history to subpoena, sell, or leak, because none is kept. The name is the policy.

No ads, no AI

Results are search results — not sponsored placements, and not a model's paraphrase of the web. amnesia hands you the links and the sources and stays out of the way.

A single static page

The whole front end is one self-contained HTML file with inline CSS and JS — no framework, no build step, no external dependencies. Add it as your browser's default search engine via OpenSearch and host it anywhere a static file goes. MIT-licensed.

03Where it sits

Part of The Reach.

amnesia is how the stack searches. The Reach is what extends an agent beyond one machine and one session — portable sessions, a remote control plane, and private search.

claude-sync

Move Claude Code sessions across machines, byte-identical.

claude-bridge

Drive your sessions from Discord — approve with a button.

Search the web. Remember nothing.

amnesia is open source and MIT-licensed. Read the code, run it on your own box, or try it live.

View amnesia on GitHub →