SearX

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2016–2023), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with SearX, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 7 complaints

Self-hosted search proxy was too complicated for the commenter to install2023-02-26
Built-in list of search providers is poor user experience2021-11-12
After a few searches, browser bar queries redirect to the site homepage instead of results2021-01-10
Lack of decent public instances made it hard to use2020-08-23
Can't figure out which searx instance to use or who to trust2020-07-02
Search service is too slow to use comfortably2018-10-03
Links force opening in a new tab, which overrides the user's browser choice2016-07-25