searxng-search: record that no domestic-only engine set works here
Asked for a domestic-only default, so every general-web index SearXNG ships for China was added to keep_only, the container was restarted, and each was measured over 5 runs per query. None of them is usable. The default stays bing,yandex. engine en hits zh hits outcome 360search 5/5 5/5 reliable, 0% relevant quark 0/5 0/5 rate-limited dead after two good responses baidu - 0 CAPTCHA, 1h IP suspension sogou - 0 upstream AttributeError baidu kaifa - 0/10 code index: "opencode v2" matches OpenCV2 bilibili - - video titles, not a web index chinaso news - - falls through to the default engine set quark was the one that looked like the fix. On its first two requests it returned the exact article being asked about as result #1 on both the Chinese and the English query -- better than anything else measured -- and then answered 0 results on 5 consecutive runs of each. Had it not been run 5 times, it would have looked like the obvious upgrade. baidu kaifa is worth remembering as a category error: it is a code search index, so it matches "opencode v2" against OpenCV2 and returns CSDN blog posts at 0% relevance. It is reachable and does not CAPTCHA, which makes it look healthy in /config while being useless. The foreign engines that were reachable (brave, duckduckgo, google, qwant, wikipedia) were added at the same time and all returned 0, consistent with the network timeouts already recorded in settings.yml. mojeek and startpage are not present in this SearXNG release at all, so the earlier note calling them "unreachable" was imprecise. settings.yml was restored from a backup and diffed byte-identical before this commit; the probe engines never left the instance. cn.bing.com is the only dependable endpoint and is a China-hosted Bing, so bing counts as the domestic option. Its one real limitation stands: it ignores the site: operator, so site-restricted search is unavailable through this instance. Also fixes a duplicated `bing` row left in the README engine table by the previous commit.
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@@ -42,8 +42,32 @@ const DEFAULT_BASE_URL = process.env.SEARXNG_URL ?? "http://127.0.0.1:39217"
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// the first round of noise in this plugin's history came from.
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//
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// naver is strong on English but returns 0/9 on Chinese, so it is left out
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// rather than allowed to dilute Chinese queries. baidu stays out entirely: it
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// answers with a CAPTCHA and suspends the client IP for an hour.
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// rather than allowed to dilute Chinese queries.
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//
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// A domestic-only engine set was tried and there is no working one on this
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// network. Every general-web index SearXNG ships for China was added to
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// keep_only, restarted, and measured over 5 runs per query:
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//
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// engine en hits zh hits result
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// 360search 5/5 5/5 4-5 results, 0% relevant
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// quark 0/5 0/5 11/11 relevant twice, then rate-limited dead
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// baidu - 0 CAPTCHA, suspends the client IP for an hour
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// sogou - 0 upstream AttributeError, searx/engines/sogou.py:56
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// baidu kaifa - 0/10 code index: matches "opencode v2" as OpenCV2
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// bilibili - - video titles, not a web index
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// chinaso news - - falls through to the default engine set
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//
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// quark is the one that looked like a fix. It returned the exact article being
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// asked about as result #1 on both queries, then answered 0 results on 5
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// consecutive runs of each. Do not put it back in the default on the strength
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// of a first request.
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//
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// cn.bing.com is the only reliably useful endpoint, and it is a China-hosted
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// Bing, so `bing` counts as the domestic option here. Its one real limitation
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// is that it ignores the `site:` operator entirely.
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//
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// baidu stays out entirely: it answers with a CAPTCHA and suspends the client
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// IP for an hour, which would break every search that touches it.
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const DEFAULT_ENGINES = "bing,yandex"
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const DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS = 20_000
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