# General Question: Search Query Privacy

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/general-question-search-query-privacy/365459
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** search, privacy
**Created:** [May 9, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/general-question-search-query-privacy/365459 "2025-05-09T12:56:05Z")
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### Author: ![Fort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e4f/32.png) [@Fort](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Fort)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/general-question-search-query-privacy/365459/1 "2025-05-09T12:56:05Z")

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Hi everyone,

This is my first post here.

May I know if the search queries entered in the Search module are encrypted or private? Regards.

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### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/general-question-search-query-privacy/365459/3 "2025-05-09T14:09:39Z")

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> [@Fort](#):
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> This is my first post here

Hello 👋, welcome to Meta!

> [@Fort](#):
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> May I know if the search queries entered in the Search module are encrypted or private?

Could this be what you are looking for?

> [@Search Logs Page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-logs-page/73281):
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> Now that we have [search logging](https://meta.discourse.org/t/effectively-logging-search-queries/63838) in place it’s time to put that data into action. I propose creating a new page under “Admin” → “Logs” → “Search Logs” tab, like so: The initial version of search logs page will contain following data points: term: the search term. searches: number of times the term has been searched for. continued from search: number of times user has clicked on topic from search results. most viewed topic: the topic that has been visited most for a particular…

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### Author: ![Fort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e4f/32.png) [@Fort](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Fort)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2025, 11:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/general-question-search-query-privacy/365459/4 "2025-05-10T11:53:37Z")

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> [@NateDhaliwal](#):
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> Hello 👋, welcome to Meta!

Thank you!

> [@NateDhaliwal](#):
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> Could this be what you are looking for?

Thanks. This is rather close to what I am looking for. I’ll look into it.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2025, 11:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/general-question-search-query-privacy/365459/5 "2025-06-09T11:54:34Z")

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