SearXNG sometimes goes bonkers in its results
from Flagstaff@programming.dev to privacy@lemmy.ca on 19 Aug 04:04
https://programming.dev/post/35937223

I don’t suppose there’s a solution to it. I use search.trom.tf which cycles through a list of SearXNG instances, but some of them retrieve results that literally look like they belong to another query. Has anyone else experienced this?

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nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Aug 04:41 next collapse

I have. There was a period of time all of my results were in chinese.

Flagstaff@programming.dev on 19 Aug 09:31 collapse

Yeah, I’ve gotten different langs even when specifying en-us! Just rerunning the query through TROM Search to try up to a few other instances solves the trick, though.

artiman@piefed.social on 19 Aug 15:24 collapse

Use quotes, also have you enabled the bing engine? https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/4964

Flagstaff@programming.dev on 19 Aug 15:37 next collapse

It’s not my instance; TROM Search cycles through a list of other people’s instances. I’ll try quotes, though, thanks!

Flagstaff@programming.dev on 20 Aug 05:21 collapse

Okay, so quotes do nothing, sadly:<img alt="" src="https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/76140e51-e743-4c10-b224-b91ab45e8cca.jpeg">