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You know that hosting your own instance means unless you've people using it you'll lose anonymity. The big advantage of those public instances is that many people use them mixing your searches with others.
I pipe mine through a vpn, should look like anyone elses searches...
No because you're most likely the only one running a SearXNG instance on that VPN public IP. Google will eventually cross reference information and figure out that queries coming from that IP are only yours.
Not so sure about that, are SearXNG immeadiately identifiable as such, if not it just looks like any other search. Also does the evil eye actuaully care about edge cases like self hosted SearXNG? Still, might be nice to rotate the exit node...
ETA I also keep google off for default searches, and use it by bang only when other things fail, a rare occurrence.