My searx instance is down for a while, and I was forced to use and try all the search engines, all of them are really bad

You can set this as your default search engine and every use it will redirect you to a random searx instance

  • barbara@lemmy.ml
    15·
    8 months ago

    Why? So that you have a bad experience on all instances, not just on one?

    I haven’t used searx often but when I do, I don’t face any issues. What arr your issues with them?

    • merde alors
      5·
      8 months ago

      just changed my default to duckduckgo before opening lemmy. i often get “Too Many Requests” message and i had enough.

      or this one 👉

       Messages from the search engines
 Error! Engines cannot retrieve results:
 brave ( timeout )
 duckduckgo ( timeout )
 google ( timeout )
 qwant ( timeout )
 wikidata ( timeout )
 wikipedia ( timeout )
 
 Sorry!
 
 No results were found. You can try to:
 
Refresh the page.
Search for another query or select another category (above).
Change the search engine used in the preferences: /preferences
Switch to another instance: https://searx.space
          • Gooey0210OP
            1·
            8 months ago

            You can add the one from the post, and it works really well, at least for me

            Note: you add the link as a search engine, and it will give you a random instance every time

              • Gooey0210OP
                2·
                8 months ago

                Yeah, this is a pain for me too actually

                There’s the no-js version, but it doesn’t seem to be automatic, and also there’s a tor only version

    • Gooey0210OP
      1·
      8 months ago

      I couldn’t quite understand, can you elaborate? 😅

      • SoulKaribou@lemmy.ml
        1·
        8 months ago

        Thanks for the reply. Tried again just now and it works indeed as advertised, sorry for the noise. Maybe because i removed it from my bookmarks (i tried that until i figured there’s no shortcuts in mull). Or maybe some cache expired…

        Anyway, it works indeed, thanks !