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For browser option, should I chose Kagi or Swisscows? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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SearxNG instances are not working as well these days and I want something more reliable. I will just pay a subscription. Swiss cows is pushing subscriptions and I'm good with paying. Never tried Kagi.

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[–] root@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity, what issues are you having with SearXNG? I’m self hosting and recently have noticed a lot of timeouts across many of the engines I have enabled. Just wondering if you’re having similar experience

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

OP probably isn't self-hosting it. I haven't got around to self-hosting it either and:

a majority of instances no longer include Google
many instances return absolutely bogus results
the ones that return reasonable results have a 50% chance of getting 'Suspended: timeout'

The rate-limiting has hit once-reliable instances really hard in the past few months.

[–] ComradePedro@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Past few months? I’ve tried several instances since over a year ago and absolutely never did I get decent results, unfortunately. They always get rate limited by Google and/or some other error occurs.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

It was decent until a few months ago. Now it's Chinese language, or just useless garbage that tangentially relates to a word in my search.