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Jynx, you owe me a beer!
The thing about searxng is that it's essentially a search engine aggregator, so it will only ever be as good as the regular search engines it's pulling results from. Like searx isn't doing its own searches and giving you better results than google, ddg, etc., it's outsourcing your search to those other search engines and showing you a compilation of their results without you having to interact with them. Of course you can fine tune how it does that and choose which actual search engines it gives you results from, but it's still ultimately search results from those primary engines. So its major benefit is privacy and all the good stuff that comes from that like no ads and not getting tracked. But if the only things that turn up on google, ddg, bing, etc., Are slop, then that's all you're going to get with searx as well. That said, I still highly recommend it, it's the only thing I use for searching these days.
Yeah no magic bullets as indexing the web is expensive and increasingly stuff is in walled gardens because everyone wants monopoly.