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The available public instances [1] seem to take 5-6 seconds for search results page.

Is this to be expected with self-hosted too?

[1] https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search#public-instances

I think that may be a bit of an unfair statement. They do note just above in the public instances the following:

> Note: Use public instances at your own discretion. Maintainers of Whoogle do not personally validate the integrity of these instances, and popular public instances are more likely to be rate-limited or blocked.

Having tested with various search strings, the time to first search-result paint for the the first public instance [1] feels just as fast a Google.

[1] https://whoogle.sdf.org/

No. My self-hosted instance is about as fast as using Google directly. Maybe a half a second slower, but barely noticeable if it is. I can't even tell.

same, just threw it up on my home lab box and switched my default search and don't notice a difference

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