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.

  • root@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 days ago

    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

    • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      1·
      20 hours ago

      It was decent until a few months ago. Now it’s Chinese language, or just useless garbage that tangentially relates to a word in my search.

    • monovergent@lemmy.ml
      51·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • unfinished | 🇵🇸@lemmy.ml
        3·
        1 day 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.