SearXNG enjoyers, how do you do it?

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Inevitably several of them will return errors, and when it gets annoying enough I switch instances.

This is why I personally do not use SearX or SearXNG. That, and the fact that I would rather not trust random instance operators with my searches.

We recently had a discussion about removing it, but decided against it for now, for the reasons mentioned here:

Remove SearXNG

I don’t think we are interested in removing SearXNG at this time. There are plenty of advantages to using a search engine frontend like this that people might be interested in, including but not limited to: Aggregating search results from multiple providers gives you the most complete possible search results, some search engines are known to or are rumored to censor/demote various topics. Searx links directly to results, there’s no outbound link tracking to see exactly which result you visit. T…

That said, I don’t think there’s much to be done with regards to being rate limited, unfortunately.