c/privacy · by Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works · 2y

Tired of lame search engines? And don't have friends to share your instance?

https://searx.neocities.org/

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

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barbara@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 2y (7 replies)

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@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y (5 replies)

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

dukethorion@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Did you try changing the timeout time value? I think the default is 3 seconds...

merde@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

i just tried with firefox focus and privacy browser. I get the same timeout for https://searx.ox2.fr/search

now that i added https://paulgo.io as default, it works 🤷

Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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

merde@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 2y (1 reply)

neocities needs JavaScript to be enabled :/

Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

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

Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

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

SoulKaribou@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

The bookmark doesn't seem to work for me on mull browser android. I've added the bookmark link as a search engine:

https://searx.neocities.org/#q=%s&category_general=on

But when i use it with "test" for example, without quotes, i'm just landing on the default page. The searched text doesn't appear in the searchbox.

Maybe i missed something ?

Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Works for me on mull like that, same url

1000029673

SoulKaribou@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

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 !

LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

Just tried, but I get an "unable to connect" error on all of my devices