About Pyxis
An open-source search engine. Minimal, honest, and verifiable.
What it is
Pyxis is a self-hostable metasearch engine that pulls results from various public sources (Bing, Brave, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, etc.) through the ddgs library. It is a demo project meant to demonstrate that a search engine can be useful, transparent, and respectful of privacy.
How we protect your IP address (the three-proxy trick)
Your real IP never reaches our backend or any external search API:
- Nginx rewrites the source IP to
127.0.0.1. - Next.js proxies to Flask - again rewritten to loopback.
- The DDGS search library only sees the server's own IP.
This means even our server logs (if we kept any - we don't) would show only localhost addresses. No external service can tie a search to your IP.
No tracking, no cookies
Pyxis sets zero cookies and embeds zero tracking scripts. There is no analytics, no ad networks, and no social media pixels. No external scripts are loaded. That is it.
Why no tracking?
Pyxis is not a business. It is a project by PyxLab, a small independent lab. We have no investors, no ad network, and no reason to collect your data. The only metric we care about is whether the search results are good.
Open source - you can verify everything
The entire codebase is on GitHub. You can audit the proxy configuration, the Next.js middleware, and the Flask backend. If you don't trust our instance, run your own in minutes. This project is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0.
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PyxLab builds tools that work for people, not against them. No dark patterns, no hidden data grabs. Just code you can read and trust.