Understanding search result grouping and instant answers #2640
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Hi everyone, I'm trying to understand how to make SearXNG work for my preferences. I strongly prefer "instant answer" info boxes to appear whenever there is relevant information available. Thanks to 2256ba2 I now have Wolfram Alpha info boxes for many searches, which are incredibly helpful. But there are a few other options that look very useful but don't work as I would expect them to.
I'm trying to understand the meaning and purpose of the Engines > General section labelled "without further subgrouping", whereas the Wikimedia family are in a separate section. How do these actually affect in practice the search results if !bangs are not used? Is there any advantage for example to having Wikipedia enabled as a separate engine if Wikipedia is already indexed and well ranked in Google/DDG etc. that I have enabled?
The currency engine works as expected with queries like
5 cad in usdwithout using the!ccbang, giving a nice info box on top of the search results.But the next ones dont:
!dddsometimes appear as a normal search result, usually as the first result, but the querysycophantputs ddg definitions in the 10th place, andflummoxreturns no results from ddg definitions. Directly in DuckDuckGo all the terms I tested appeared with definitions in an info box sourced from Wordnik.!dcbang. No error messages.test spanish !lv,test in spanish !lv,test to spanish !lv,test translate spanish !lv,test english to spanish !lvall return nothing. No error messages. (Again, Wolfram Alpha gives good infoboxes for all these queries, but I wonder why Lingva doesn't work?)capital florida, not sure where it's coming from? (It's not from Wolfram Alpha, the info box for that one appears off to the side). But also shouldn't wikidata offer an infobox definition for most terms via Wiktionary?Thanks a lot for any insight provided, and also many thanks for working on SearXNG.
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