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The instance ran on a mobile connection not associated with any private information.

EDIT: It was located in a german street light 20km away from any of the users. Just to get the geolocation question out of the way.

It was more of an experiment than anything else there will be a talk about it and other FreiFunk (Open Mesh Network in Germany) related stuff at the next virtual CCC congress.

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Did you renew the mobile IP from time to time?

Note: since the version 1.0, searx stops sending request for 1 day when a CAPTCHA is detected which might help a little.

(I'm really interested by the results of your experiment)

We renewed every 12 hours in the end we came to the conclusion that google might discriminate traffic from eastern european states. The sim cards were mostly from poland, belarus and the ukraine. When we tested it against german, french and italian cards captchas were way more frequent on the eastern cards and showed way earlier. I will ping you as soon as the talk is online.

Thank you! To ping, see my profile or @dalf at GitHub

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