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🧩 Introduction

MOA is an API-based meta-search engine, developed as a continuation of the previous MOA project (legacy version). The earlier version was a fork of SearxNG, aiming to simplify and optimize it for general users. However, due to the complexity of the base code, technical limitations, and development team issues, the project was eventually discontinued.

While similar projects such as Gitee have attempted to continue in that direction, the current version of MOA has been rewritten from scratch, with a strong focus on extensibility and developer-oriented performance. Unlike its predecessor, this version does not provide any graphical user interface (UI) and is fully API-based.

Key use cases for MOA include:

• Performing in-app web searches without relying on official search engine APIs
• Providing search results free of tracking, ads, or data leaks
• Powering privacy-conscious or custom search tools

For easier integration with Python applications, a companion library called pyMOA is also available.