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Searxng search getting waaay worse. Anyone else? (slrpnk.net)
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Don't know if this is the right comm. Let me know if there's a better one.

Inthe last few days I noticed that the results of some public searxng instances has gotten way worse (mostly cyrillic/chinese text when searching english text with :en).

Does anyone else have that problem? Die google start the next anti-consumer tactic to push their AI garbage?

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[–] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This might be Bing, i noticed that Bing always returns the worst thing possible.

I configure the engines to use brave, duckduckgo, google, qwant and yahoo, always give me good results, might be the law of large numbers in action.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

Second that. I'm self hosting my own instance. If I only get some kanji (or sometimes, but very rare) cyrillic results, they're usually by bing

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

DDG is just Bing results. I thiiink Qwant might be as well.

[–] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 1 day ago

They do some treatment to the results too + internal data from them, it's not copy pasted from Bing, so the results turn out different for duckduckgo and other Bing downstream search engines.