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This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 years ago by noodlejetski@lemm.ee to c/foss@beehaw.org

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"I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that's what I am trying to build," the founder of Stract said.

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[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To save reading the paywalled article, the site is at https://stract.com/

I've only done a single search but it gave me a summary at the top, and some discussion forums in a different format. I'm impressed so far!

[–] luciole@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago

It's a free account, like the one you made so you can write your comment. I'd hardly call it paywalled.

[–] morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social 0 points 2 years ago

Hell no

Here is the source on github

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 0 points 2 years ago

I've just noticed there's a Fediverse "optic", so you can restrict it to Fediverse sites.

[–] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago

"Sign up for free access to this post"

No.