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> How does one know it's metasearch engines. Which ones are they. Have there been any discussions with them. SearXNG supports marginalia but uses the demo key.

> How does one know it's metasearch engines. Which ones are they. Have there been any discussions with them. SearXNG supports marginalia but uses the demo key. Any instance that enables marginalia support will spam the API with this key by default. I don't really mind, it's just that they need to get a key to be useful. The shared global ratelimit of the public key is (IIRC) 15 queries/minute because it's a demo key that's not intended to actually be used in any applications, just to try out the API. Maybe I should set up a daily rotating key or something to prevent this problem. I'd be all for having more search engine instances. Problem is you need specialized hardware to run a search engine, even a small one like mine. I've paid $5000 out of my own pocket to build the server I'm using, plus give or take $200/month in network and power. I'm crazy enough to take that loss. I don't expect many other people will do the same. There's really not much money in running a publicly accessible search engine.

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justinclift 4y ago
> SearXNG supports marginalia but uses the demo key. Yeah. Looking over the GitHub issue you raised about it, they didn't seem to really understand the problem before they closed it. I've just asked a question about it (same thing, different wording), which might work: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/discussions/2412 https://github.com/searxng/searxng/discussions/2412
- marginalia_nu 4y ago
  Well that issue was more about some weird bug they seem to have that causes like a dozen identical queries to fire at the same time. I ended up just putting in this: https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch/blob/master/code/services-satellite/api-service/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/api/svc/ResponseCache.java https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch/blob/ma...
  - justinclift 4y ago
    Ahhh cool, that makes sense. Good comment ascii art btw. ;D
    - marginalia_nu 4y ago
      I like SearX(NG) and don't mind they are using my API, but I wish they would be more open to dialog. Would get much more use out of my search engine if they did.
      - 1vuio0pswjnm7 4y ago
        Hope that happens.

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justinclift 4y ago

> SearXNG supports marginalia but uses the demo key. Yeah. Looking over the GitHub issue you raised about it, they didn't seem to really understand the problem before they closed it. I've just asked a question about it (same thing, different wording), which might work: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/discussions/2412 https://github.com/searxng/searxng/discussions/2412

marginalia_nu 4y ago
Well that issue was more about some weird bug they seem to have that causes like a dozen identical queries to fire at the same time. I ended up just putting in this: https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch/blob/master/code/services-satellite/api-service/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/api/svc/ResponseCache.java https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch/blob/ma...
- justinclift 4y ago
  Ahhh cool, that makes sense. Good comment ascii art btw. ;D
  - marginalia_nu 4y ago
    I like SearX(NG) and don't mind they are using my API, but I wish they would be more open to dialog. Would get much more use out of my search engine if they did.
    - 1vuio0pswjnm7 4y ago
      Hope that happens.