Since yesterday, search.disroot.org does not present any Google-based results anymore. Searx.org has no such problems.
Other search engines, such as Wikidata, 500px, deviantart, flickr time out most of the times now, too.
Thanks for heads up. Every now and then our instance goes crazy and needs restarting.
Weāre looking into resurrecting it as we speak.
Furthermore I made an issue on our board so that it is fixed permanently:
https://board.disroot.org/project/disroot-disroot/issue/1209
(Searx is my default search engine and I havenāt notice the issue until now, which is weird as I do hundreds of searches each day)
I saw it immediately, because I disabled most other engines. But when I had a look at it via another browser (no cookie with settings), it also took me a while before I understood why there were results. They were Yahoo and Bing results, evidently 
As far as I know google often timesout instances that do too many queries (giving a cooldown time) so could be we just hit that again, thought that shouldnāt last for that long (usually few hours tops).
I will have a look into it in a while, also there is a new version of searx released yesterday so as Iām at it, I will update.
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Cool! Thank you so much!
I just run update to latest 0.13 version but checking the issue board of searx project the issue seems to be not only related to our instance.
I will look into it and try apply the same changes that have been applied to main instance at searx.me hoping it will get solved.
Odd, I canāt replicate on searx.org, which is still on 0.12.0, so I thought it was related to disrootās instance. I just checked on searx.me as well (running 0.13, probably with those two patched in the GitHub issue), and it seems to work fine. So the patches should work, Iād say.
Yes. but we are now already flagged by google. It basically forces captcha. Iām about to ask guys at searx how to fix it up. We are running the latest version with the changes, but I see we are being blocked by google nonetheless.
That sucks 
Google is way too aggressive with these checks. Same thing for using VPNs, where users get bounced off of their services. Some canāt even use Gmailās IMAP anymore (permanently) because of it.
Ah ok, I guess you need to pull the plug for a while 
bloody google!
Iāve disabled google search for some time, until we are allowed again. In the mean time I recommend enabling ixquick, duckduckgo and startpage in the search engines settings.
Thanks a lot for reporting. Letās hope things get back to normal. Being without searx is like being without a leg.
As far as I remember, Startpage uses only Google, right? So thatāll do. (I do remember that startpage.com itself has a horrible delay, though).
just a headsup.
I enabled google search on our searx instance and it works. Hopefully google wonāt block us any time soon.
Thanks! Tested and working!
Aaand itās gone again.
Crap.
I can confirm google throws captchas on us again. There was a new searx release an hour ago, so I will update and switch google search off for an hour.
Aaaannnnd itās back.
Wonder for how long, though I thought maybe we could include more searx instances as search engines (did added two). in that way if we are blocked we could still use other searx instances. Though, we could endanger them to be blocked as well.
Lets wait and see.
Thanks. Iāll keep a close eye on it. Did you add āwehostā?
What does it mean if youāre searching via other searx instances? Does it then do a search according to your settings and selected engines on that instance?
Searx is a metaserch engine. So when you are quering for something, it actually āasksā all the search engines (enabled by you in preferences) for answer. Searx is modular, and obvious, searx has a possibility to query other searx instances, (kind of inception if you think about it). weho.st is a similar to disroot project run by our friends. I thought to try querying their searx instance as a fallback. Though there is a danger that when google punishes us for the amount of queries it will punish them as well (same amount of queries). So this might not work but its worth trying to see what happens and in worse case nuke their instance muahahahaā¦ 
Yeah itās captcha time again.
Edit ā Internal server error! Iām guessing youāre working on it, thatās why? 