The app itself is great, but it doesn’t currently allow access to instance settings (like selecting which search engines to use). Additionally, SearXNG has been struggling to return Google results lately, which really limits its usefulness at the moment. For now, I’ve found 4get to be a better alternative.

I truly miss the SearXNG of a few months ago, before Google broke it. It was such a fantastic tool, and I hope it can regain its former glory soon.

In my experience, the puplic searxng instances I use(d) are broken and only spit out gibberish, if anything at all for a few months.

I've been using a SearXNG randomizer, but most of the instances it passes to are kinda broken, sadly... It'd be really really cool if this thingy let you randomize across a selection of instances. It's already super cool, but that'd be like mindblowingly cool

First couple uses and I can easily see this replacing my Firefox search widget on my home screen.

However, when I click the search widget on my home screen, The app launches, but doesn't put focus on the search bar so I have to manually click it again.

I would recommend having the app launch and the focus immediately going to the search bar within the app when a person clicks on the search widget on their home screen. That way they don't have to click it again and activate the keyboard to search.

I hope Lawnchair will add this as a search engine