I will absolutely check this out, thanks for the suggestion!

Edit: I can’t get searx working at all for me, but I went ahead and implemented whoogle support

Each one has its upsides and downsides. Kbin’s search is more convenient for certain use cases, but it suffers from the same problem as Reddit’s search - it always sorts by new no matter what. In addition, it can only index instances with which kbin has federated. FediSearch should in theory index every instance, regardless of federation status, and do so in such a way that the most useful posts show first (assuming Google does its job).

I’m hoping to expand the project to hopefully be a bit more robust - I’ll definitely keep this on my radar

Will do o7

Edit: It seems Brave doesn’t support chaining site specifiers, so my current method won’t work with their search

I would guess that it is the cloudflare protection, since that will have prevented crawlers from indexing the site while it was enabled.