Don’t know if this is the right comm. Let me know if there’s a better one.

Inthe last few days I noticed that the results of some public searxng instances has gotten way worse (mostly cyrillic/chinese text when searching english text with :en).

Does anyone else have that problem? Die google start the next anti-consumer tactic to push their AI garbage?

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    5 days ago

    Can confirm, still getting results in English, but most of my preferred instances (granted I have a bias for ones with shorter URLs) have been returning unusable results. Google’s rate-limiting mechanism is probably hitting them hard.

    Hopefully the SearXNG devs can find a workaround soon, but it might be time for me to consider self-hosting or taking a look at kagi. I personally can’t put up with plain DDG since its autocorrect is too aggressive.