I self-hosted it, and used it for years and liked it. But the results take 3, 4, 5 seconds to come in as you wait for it to run the search on all the different engines. I just tested searx.be above and found the same thing.

When I use any other search engine, I get results in half a second or less. I know it’s only a few seconds but it’s definitely noticeable when you use a different search engine.

This is precisely why I don’t use searx.
I just want to quickly find shit, not maintain a list of instances that all have slightly different functionality and frontends.