In my experience, I always get much better Searx results by changing the language to the relevant one (and disable SafeSearch). However, between instances, it varies which search sources they include (Google, Bing, DDG etc.). After trying multiple, I’ve found a few instances that generally get me the results I’m looking for.
E.g. if searching for, let’s say, something German, my URL would contain this:
But why does the inetol instance not give any results for “android new tab” (this wasn’t what I as looking for, but I truncated the query for testing)?
This is even though the results page states safe search if off and en-US is auto detected as the language?
I am looking to get off regular google, but these issues are not giving me confidence about Searx.
I think the best way to make the Internet less sh*tty is to get away from Google search.
I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.
https://search.inetol.net/
It’s also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:
https://searx.space/
Don’t mind me just here to corrupt the children you tried to save
I tried two instances search.inetol.net and priv.au and I got no results for basic web search.
But northboot.xyz worked.
Am I missing something? How do I pick a given instance?
In my experience, I always get much better Searx results by changing the language to the relevant one (and disable SafeSearch). However, between instances, it varies which search sources they include (Google, Bing, DDG etc.). After trying multiple, I’ve found a few instances that generally get me the results I’m looking for.
E.g. if searching for, let’s say, something German, my URL would contain this:
/search?q=cannabis+legal&language=de&safesearch=0But why does the inetol instance not give any results for “android new tab” (this wasn’t what I as looking for, but I truncated the query for testing)?
This is even though the results page states safe search if off and en-US is auto detected as the language?
I am looking to get off regular google, but these issues are not giving me confidence about Searx.