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