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Every SearXNG instance I've tested has been terrible for my test queries. Any chance you can account for that?
Up until a few weeks ago I was running my own private SearXNG instance and it's not just you, even I noticed on my OWN instance that it had progressively gotten worse. Initially it was great so I just left it be but then the performance and results just became horrible. It was hit or miss if the thing would even load or not when other instances on my server like my akkoma, piefed, redlib, forgejo, etc all ran smooth as silk.
Eventually I ditched SearXNG and switched to 4get which much better and faster results. thing never goes down and the search results have been fantastic.
Did you change something at the settings? Searxng is just as good as the source it's using.
I'd like to use SearXNG as well but experience the same - I've tried a lot of different instances and settings but I always seem to get worse results than searching directly in the source search engine, for some reason? (note I don't use Kagi so this isn't an endorsement for them either)
They weren't my instances. There are some public instances floating around so, before trying to self host, I gave them a shot. I can't remember the specifics well. For me to bother investing time testing, I may have had a query that was irritating me on Duck Duck Go and Google so it might not have been a particularly fair test