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root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is it still worth it though? Nice username btw lel

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  • root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Lol, thanks. I think it’s still worth it if you want more ownership over your searches, but just expect some rough edges

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why terrible?

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  • root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Recently I’ll often get results that aren’t at all related to what I searched for. I also get a lot of timeouts from the upstream search engines, and sometimes I get results that are in Chinese for some reason

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    • fizzle@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There’s an open issue about this on github. It’s the remote API is only recognising the first word of your query.

      This has been bugging me too.

      The timeouts are because the engines are presenting captchas. There’s a work around whereby you use your instance as a proxy, navigate to that remote engine, and do the captcha.

      These two issues are a real pain in the ass so while I do presently have a searxng instance I’ve been using qwant the last few weeks because I’m just over it.

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    • Engywuck@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      IIRC these are related to Bing misbehaving. There should be an ooen issue about that. Try deactivating it in preferences flash a workaround.

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    • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Interesting.

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