you can set your preferences to whatever engines you want to use.
Include Google, or not. It's up to you.
The preferences are saved in a cookie which is not stored by the SearX application (can be verified by the source code on github).
If you don't trust the public instance, you can host your own and pipe it through a VPN, or you VPN to a public provider. I do both, depending on my need at the time.
you can set your preferences to whatever engines you want to use.
Include Google, or not. It's up to you.
The preferences are saved in a cookie which is not stored by the SearX application (can be verified by the source code on github).
If you don't trust the public instance, you can host your own and pipe it through a VPN, or you VPN to a public provider. I do both, depending on my need at the time.