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

SoulKaribou , 2 months ago

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 ?

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7fcc2a27-b3e8-4686-85b9-fa46febe0dde.jpeg

Gooey0210 OP , 2 months ago

Works for me on mull like that, same url

1000029673

SoulKaribou , 2 months ago

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 , 2 months ago

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

barbara , 2 months ago

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 , 2 months ago

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 , 2 months ago

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

merde , 2 months ago

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 OP , 2 months ago

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 , 2 months ago

neocities needs JavaScript to be enabled :/

Gooey0210 OP , 2 months ago

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 OP , 2 months ago

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