diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index cbeec1e3..80f76698 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ services:
       - PUID=${PUID:-1000}
       - PGID=${PGID:-1000}
     depends_on:
-      searxng:
-        condition: service_healthy
+#      searxng:
+#        condition: service_healthy
       chromadb:
         condition: service_started
     restart: unless-stopped
@@ -87,55 +87,55 @@ services:
       - ANONYMIZED_TELEMETRY=FALSE
     restart: unless-stopped
 
-  searxng:
+#  searxng:
     # Pinned, not :latest — odysseus waits on searxng's healthcheck
     # (depends_on: condition: service_healthy), so a broken upstream `latest`
     # tag blocks the whole app from starting. 2026.6.2 crashes on boot with
     # `KeyError: 'default_doi_resolver'`, failing the healthcheck (issue #1414).
     # Bump this deliberately after verifying a newer tag boots clean.
-    image: docker.io/searxng/searxng:2026.5.31-7159b8aed
-    entrypoint:
-      - /bin/sh
-      - -c
-      - |
-        set -eu
-        if [ ! -s /etc/searxng/settings.yml ] || grep -q 'odysseus-local-searxng-json-2026-05-30\|__SEARXNG_SECRET__' /etc/searxng/settings.yml; then
-          secret="$${SEARXNG_SECRET:-}"
-          if [ -z "$$secret" ]; then
-            secret="$$(python -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(48))')"
-          fi
-          sed "s|__SEARXNG_SECRET__|$$secret|g" /tmp/searxng-settings.yml.template > /etc/searxng/settings.yml
-        fi
-        exec /usr/local/searxng/entrypoint.sh
-    ports:
-      - "127.0.0.1:8080:8080"
-    volumes:
-      - searxng-data:/etc/searxng
-      - ./config/searxng/settings.yml:/tmp/searxng-settings.yml.template:ro,z
-    environment:
-      - SEARXNG_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080/
-      - SEARXNG_SECRET=${SEARXNG_SECRET:-}
-    # The official searxng image runs as the non-root `searxng` user, but its
-    # entrypoint still needs to chown /etc/searxng on first boot, drop privs via
-    # su-exec, and (with our wrapper above) write settings.yml into the named
-    # volume. Without these capabilities the wrapper aborts at the redirection
-    # with EACCES and the container fails its healthcheck with permission
-    # errors during setup. Mirrors the cap set recommended by the upstream
-    # searxng-docker compose file. See issue #721.
-    cap_drop:
-      - ALL
-    cap_add:
-      - CHOWN
-      - SETGID
-      - SETUID
-      - DAC_OVERRIDE
-    healthcheck:
-      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "python -c \"import urllib.request; urllib.request.urlopen('http://localhost:8080/', timeout=5).read(1)\""]
-      interval: 5s
-      timeout: 6s
-      retries: 20
-      start_period: 10s
-    restart: unless-stopped
+#    image: docker.io/searxng/searxng:2026.5.31-7159b8aed
+#    entrypoint:
+#      - /bin/sh
+#      - -c
+#      - |
+#        set -eu
+#        if [ ! -s /etc/searxng/settings.yml ] || grep -q 'odysseus-local-searxng-json-2026-05-30\|__SEARXNG_SECRET__' /etc/searxng/settings.yml; then
+#          secret="$${SEARXNG_SECRET:-}"
+#          if [ -z "$$secret" ]; then
+#            secret="$$(python -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(48))')"
+#          fi
+#          sed "s|__SEARXNG_SECRET__|$$secret|g" /tmp/searxng-settings.yml.template > /etc/searxng/settings.yml
+#        fi
+#        exec /usr/local/searxng/entrypoint.sh
+#    ports:
+#      - "127.0.0.1:8080:8080"
+#    volumes:
+#      - searxng-data:/etc/searxng
+#      - ./config/searxng/settings.yml:/tmp/searxng-settings.yml.template:ro,z
+#    environment:
+#      - SEARXNG_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080/
+#    restart: unless-stopped
+#    # The official searxng image runs as the non-root `searxng` user, but its
+#    # entrypoint still needs to chown /etc/searxng on first boot, drop privs via
+#    # su-exec, and (with our wrapper above) write settings.yml into the named
+#    # volume. Without these capabilities the wrapper aborts at the redirection
+#    # with EACCES and the container fails its healthcheck with permission
+#    # errors during setup. Mirrors the cap set recommended by the upstream
+#    # searxng-docker compose file. See issue #721.
+#    cap_drop:
+#      - ALL
+#    cap_add:
+#      - CHOWN
+#      - SETGID
+#      - SETUID
+#      - DAC_OVERRIDE
+#    healthcheck:
+#      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "python -c \"import urllib.request; urllib.request.urlopen('http://localhost:8080/', timeout=5).read(1)\""]
+#      interval: 5s
+#      timeout: 6s
+#      retries: 20
+#      start_period: 10s
+#    restart: unless-stopped
 
   ntfy:
     image: docker.io/binwiederhier/ntfy
@@ -149,6 +149,6 @@ services:
     restart: unless-stopped
 
 volumes:
-  searxng-data:
+#  searxng-data:
   chromadb-data:
   ntfy-cache: