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Anybody out there self hosting Searxing? (docs.searxng.org)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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The instances that give the best results seem to also get throttled pretty often on the source search engines, to the point of near uselessness.

Thinking of hosting my own, but the maintenance seems pretty involved according to the docs.

What's your experience been like?

Edit: all right y'all, thanks for the feedback. I'm going to spin up an instance.

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[–] 30 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Self hosting and the maintenance is painless, but the results have been pretty terrible lately

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Why terrible?

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Recently I’ll often get results that aren’t at all related to what I searched for. I also get a lot of timeouts from the upstream search engines, and sometimes I get results that are in Chinese for some reason

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    There's an open issue about this on github. It's the remote API is only recognising the first word of your query.

    This has been bugging me too.

    The timeouts are because the engines are presenting captchas. There's a work around whereby you use your instance as a proxy, navigate to that remote engine, and do the captcha.

    These two issues are a real pain in the ass so while I do presently have a searxng instance I've been using qwant the last few weeks because I'm just over it.

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