content: searx.me is down Looks like it's down. https://searx.me/down.html searx.me is currently down End of downtime: 2017.08.18 00:00 UTC The searx.me server is reaching its limits. Instead of scaling the service again, we decided to shut down searx.me for a day to promote other public instances and self-hosting. The biggest advantage of searx is being free software, which makes us able to use a service we trust. So, please consider using your own instance or one of the other public instances. If you need help setting up your own searx, feel free to contact me. About searx.me & and this downtime Searx is no commercial enterprise, it lacks all the resources available to the services you normally visit, we don't have neither a marketing department, nor do we have datacenters, nor devops teams. Operation of searx.me is a one-man show with a lot of support of friends. However, this instance has thousands of daily users, and unfortunately also hundreds of bots trying to abuse our service. We deeply believe in the power of decentralization, instead of relying on one centralized provider, we believe in the power of competition and redundance. May this action not only inspire to use a different searx provider, we hope you might also consider decentralizing your email, your social networks and other gilded cages erected around you. Maybe we inspire a global #decentralizeday with this action today. Other searx instances https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances