Been using searx.be for a bit now and they had many results in Dutch and German, which can be expected for a site based in Belgium. But does anyone notice an influx of results in Russian? Did they change the server location or are users in Russia catching on to it? Yandex isn’t toggled on in the settings either.

Not trying to judge security by language. I just kinda liked having results in a mix of languages I could read.

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    The mentioned server side changes (e.g. A server move you mentioned but could also be server settings, provider settings, etc).

    I guess that is the case. According to https://searx.space/ the searx.be server is in Austria but might use some proxy to talk to Google and similar to avoid quick blocking. The maintainer of searx.be also maintains yewtu.be and that one uses proxies (The proxy names can be seen when blocking auto play of videos in Tor browser).

    Also getting results in Russian here since a few days. Usually it is either Swedish or Dutch. Never German.