I pay per search using their APi and my SearXNG instance, it’s like ¢0.03 per search which I capped to $5 a month, we’re currently on the 23rd of October and I owe them a whopping $2.03, I usually don’t hit that $5 limit.

I only wish they weren’t an American company.

[–] IlCaviale@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

So let me get this straight. Not only it's closed source and SaaS but you guys are paying for your data to be stored on US based servers that are vulnerable to the patriot act? You're paying for that privilege?

[–] ohshit604@lemmy.halstead.host 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I can’t say if the servers themselves reside on US soil but the companies office certainly do, while I admit I was hesitant to give them my money I got tired of being rate limited by Bing/DDG/Startpage on my SearXNG instance, even though I don’t make many requests they do not like aggregator engines, and I sure as hell didn’t want want my server touching Google servers regularly.

Settled with the least worst option available I’d say.

[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

What do you use?