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Move WolframAlpha away from Science category #813
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I don't know, but is category These are my thoughts about ... When I search for an equation (e.g. An alternative to I don’t have a final opinion yet, what do you think? |
I'm in favor of this PR (no category), because WolframAlpha
I feel it is more a tool that has to be called on purpose rather receiving any queries (from the general or science categories). |
Hi there, I really think that the original SearX properly placed Wolfram Alpha under the Science category, because some users might want to enable it by default (without using bangs). Please see my reasoning for this here: |
As I have mentioned in the issue above, I would suggest that WolframAlpha be placed in the general category, while being disabled by default. This would mean every user could opt to use it for instant answers on any public instance while the default config would still be fast. Bangs would also still work. I have just set up an instance with that configuration because I really wanted to have WolframAlpha instant answers on every query. An even cooler solution would be if instant answers could be lazy-loaded, such that the search results appear as soon as available, while WolframAlpha can take its time and drop the instant answer in later. |
As suggested in searxng#813 (comment) as a good compromise between searxng#813 (comment) and searxng#966 (comment)
…efault As suggested in comment [1] as a good compromise between [2] and [3]. This will help users that want Wolfram Alpha instant answers by default with every query and don't mind the slowness. It will be disabled by default so it's fast for all users, and those that need it can enable it as a user-configurable option without requiring setting up their own instance to change the Wolfram Alpha categorization. [1] searxng#813 (comment) [2] searxng#813 (comment) [3] searxng#966 (comment)
…efault As suggested in comment [1] as a good compromise between [2] and [3]. This will help users that want Wolfram Alpha instant answers by default with every query and don't mind the slowness. It will be disabled by default so it's fast for all users, and those that need it can enable it as a user-configurable option without requiring setting up their own instance to change the Wolfram Alpha categorization. [1] #813 (comment) [2] #813 (comment) [3] #966 (comment)
What does this PR do?
I just noticed #634 and I loved it.
I've always thought that WolframAlpha was a little bit out of place in the Science category, which is otherwise exclusively used for scientific articles, so if you wanted to use the
!science
bang for papers you had to remember to disable Wolfram first.For now I just left the category blank, but technically it could be part of a Calculator or Mathematics category if there were more engines of that type.
Related-ish issue: searx/searx#2472
How to test this PR locally?
!science
bang.