In addition to not tracking you and being fully open-source, there are 12 search categories in its settings with literally hundreds of available search engines.
In addition to not tracking you and being fully open-source, there are 12 search categories in its settings with literally hundreds of available search engines.
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.
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.
Yahoo and Duckduckgo return pretty good results for me.
We are back to Yahoo?
Full internet circle.
I like it because there are some very obscure sites in its index, which can be returned from fairly simple queries.
DDG has gone completely shitty for me recently.
Such a weird thing to be seeing.
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.
At best, DDG results are only 33% less shitty than Google’s, but the UI is 2000% better.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
I wonder if routing it through FlareSolverr isn’t a solution.