There are 2 instances that use anti bot features that I could find. That is https://search.canine.tools/ and https://search.fredix.xyz/

Personally, the fastest and most reliable in my opinion are https://priv.au/ and https://searx.tiekoetter.com/ I used to use Tiekoetter’s instance for nearly a year before I hosted my own. Otherwise I would recommend checking here: https://searx.space/

With that said, I still didn’t answer your question, because I am hosting my own instance, but I would not recommend joining unless you really want to. I’m going to move it to central Europe, it’s currently hosted in Romania.

Damn, is it actually Eivith? Thanks for all the support help in the Matrix chat

Damn, I too went to this same route of Google -> duckduckgo -> Searx. While it is true searx is unreliable at times, if you enable more engines and find an instance that has anti botting features, it should be pretty solid