[fix] engines: bing first word results (#6671)

Fixes the bing web engine, it was just using the first word of the query for the search and return random junk other times. see: vojkovic#10

Swapped to use bing's setlang and cc params. I found us, cn, ru return complete garbage 100% of the time. I reckon that if you don't have an ip address from there it will just return garbage, so those three are skipped. Also removed accept language override because it didn't change anything anymore.


- Closes: https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/4964
- Related: https://github.com/vojkovic/searxng/issues/10
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Brock Vojkovic
2026-09-11 14:41:13 +08:00
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parent 931fd9787b
commit ffe96f8a6f
4 changed files with 6 additions and 39 deletions

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@@ -72,43 +72,21 @@ def get_locale_params(engine_region: str | None) -> dict[str, str] | None:
return {"mkt": engine_region}
def override_accept_language(params: "OnlineParams", engine_region: str | None) -> None:
"""Override the ``Accept-Language`` header.
The default header built by :py:class:`~searx.search.processors.online.OnlineProcessor`
appends ``en;q=0.3`` as a fallback language::
Accept-Language: de,de-DE;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
Bing seems to better select the results locale based on the
``Accept-Language`` value header.
This function is shared with :py:mod:`searx.engines.bing_images`,
:py:mod:`searx.engines.bing_news`, and :py:mod:`searx.engines.bing_videos`.
"""
if not engine_region or engine_region == "clear":
return
lang = engine_region.split("-")[0]
params["headers"]["Accept-Language"] = f"{engine_region},{lang};q=0.9"
def request(query: str, params: "OnlineParams"):
"""Assemble a Bing-Web request."""
engine_region = traits.get_region(params["searxng_locale"], traits.all_locale)
override_accept_language(params, engine_region)
query_params: dict[str, str | int] = {
"q": query,
"adlt": _safesearch_map.get(params.get("safesearch", 0), "off"),
}
locale_params = get_locale_params(engine_region)
if locale_params:
query_params.update(locale_params)
if engine_region and engine_region != "clear":
lang, _, cc = engine_region.partition("-")
query_params["setlang"] = lang
if cc and cc not in ("us", "cn", "ru"): # bing just sends junk for these
query_params["cc"] = cc
params["url"] = f"{base_url}/search?{urlencode(query_params)}"