Option to send searches via POST request for privacy

marascript

I used to use a search engine called Searx (I was using this instance), and they had an option to send searches via POST request. This removes the search query from the URL parameters, making it so that searches do not leak in your browser history.

For example, instead of https://kagi.com/search?q=kagi it would just be https://kagi.com/search.

Their settings UI looks like this, and is set to POST by default:

It would be an optional setting, that users could toggle off and on.

They also have a setting to remove the search query from the page title, which would complete this setup.

Luis

marascript we will soon publicly launch and announce our Search API, which is intended for this purpose.

b1qzi09c

Being able to search via POST is important for privacy and hopefully Kagi will add this not just via an API but for the normal web search as well. It should be possible to make a search request with the query and session token in the POST body.