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• sga@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sadly, currently the situation is very bad. I was a searxng user till maybe last month, and now you basically can not use it. google returns nothing, ddg rate limits shortly, brave does same, bing and yahoo return random gibberish. startpage, leta and many other frontends return errors.

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  • CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Still working fine for me

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    • kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Works fine for me as well. Using public instances can be hit or miss. I just installed it locally, which I get is not possible for many, but it does work. Try lesser known instances.

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  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Never had one issue with it.

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• AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  YaCy

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• Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tried a few public instances and it seems like there only way to not get rate limited by the big players is probably to self-host.

  Trying to wrap my head around how to self host and still keep it anonymous. Anyone have experience hosting a “private” instance that’s web accessible? Are tokens sufficient to keep others off it? Cn you still get results routing through TOR?

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• saylesss88@eviltoast.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  SearXNG is great but unfortunately Google frequently stops working as an engine in SearxNG because its anti-bot and rate‑limiting systems detect SearxNG traffic as automated scraping and either return CAPTCHAs, “access denied/suspended” messages, or HTTP 429 “too many requests” errors.

  Their devs admit that there’s no simple solution because Google actively hunts and stops this traffic once a fix is implemented. The other search engines still work but I tend to get irrelevant nonsense as results. I have started using StartPage and am pretty happy with it so far as another option for a metasearchengine.

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  • mo_lave@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Google frequently stops working as an engine

    Don’t threaten me with a good time.

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  • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wonder if routing it through FlareSolverr isn’t a solution.

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  • suzune@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I only get crap results when using the public SearXNG instances. It’s far better when I use my own container.

    I didn’t notice google results are gone. But I also don’t care. If they rely on your metadata to give you results, it’s obvious they are violating privacy.

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  • onehundredsixtynine@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      DDG has gone completely shitty for me recently.

      Such a weird thing to be seeing.

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    • bunkyprewster@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We are back to Yahoo?

      Full internet circle.

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    • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I've switched the default search engine in Firefox to DDG finally, and I honestly haven't noticed a difference in results. This may not be the best praise though, since Google has sucked for a number of years now.

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