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SearXNG sometimes goes bonkers in its results (programming.dev)
submitted 3 months ago by Flagstaff@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ca
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I don't suppose there's a solution to it. I use https://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 3 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

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 2 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

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 1 points 3 months ago

Okay, so quotes do nothing, sadly:

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