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Searx 1.0 Release

• Seirdy 6y ago
  Given how frequently Searx instances get banned by the search engines they use, it would be interesting to have a "meta-Searx" client that tries different Searx instances for the selected engines until none of the engines error out.
  • techbio 6y ago
    Interesting meta, but how to be sure the random instances aren't honeypots, (and) or altering results?
    • Seirdy 6y ago
      A preferences menu that lets users select/specify Searx instances, similar to the existing preferences menus.
• fsflover 6y ago
  Alternative FLOSS P2P search engine is https://yacy.net https://yacy.net.
• jdonaldson 6y ago
  I come away really disappointed with efforts for "meta search engines". There's so much more that should be possible. There should be a way to surface information regarding the results to that they can be combined (e.g. provide raw tf/idf scores, or expose the difference/bias between the results from different engines). I don't just want an API over triggering queries, I want an API that helps interpret/debias/rerank results.