SearxNG instances are not working as well these days and I want something more reliable. I will just pay a subscription. Swiss cows is pushing subscriptions and I'm good with paying. Never tried Kagi.

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[–] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Out of curiosity, what issues are you having with SearXNG? I’m self hosting and recently have noticed a lot of timeouts across many of the engines I have enabled. Just wondering if you’re having similar experience

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    OP probably isn't self-hosting it. I haven't got around to self-hosting it either and:

    • a majority of instances no longer include Google
    • many instances return absolutely bogus results
    • the ones that return reasonable results have a 50% chance of getting 'Suspended: timeout'

    The rate-limiting has hit once-reliable instances really hard in the past few months.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Past few months? I’ve tried several instances since over a year ago and absolutely never did I get decent results, unfortunately. They always get rate limited by Google and/or some other error occurs.

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