2026-10-10
- The text-search fallback now cascades over Parallel and You.com instead of asking a single provider. On each search the configured providers are tried in a random order, one after the other, until one returns results, under the same 15-second budget, which is split across the providers still untried and not paused so a hanging one cannot starve the rest. A provider that answers HTTP 429 is paused until its
Retry-Afterand skipped meanwhile, as You.com's acceptable use policy asks. A single search can now reach more than one provider; each sees the query text and this server's IP address, never the user's.SEARCH_FALLBACK_PROVIDERSpicks the providers (all of them when empty), andSEARCH_FALLBACK_PARALLEL_API_KEYandSEARCH_FALLBACK_YOUCOM_API_KEYhold the optional keys.SEARCH_FALLBACK_PROVIDERandSEARCH_FALLBACK_API_KEYare removed: if either is still set while the fallback is enabled, the server stops at start with an error naming the replacement, and so does a provider key with a control character inside it./statusgained per-provider counters undersearches.fallbackProviders.