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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 8 months 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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[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The open source SearXNG is good enough for me so far. Any reason to switch to Stract ?

[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Stract and SearXNG are two entirely different projects. SearXNG is just using other search engines to power itself - it's known as a meta search engine. Stract has its own index that does not use other search engines to power itself.

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If Stract is any good, it would be nice combo to make it work in SearXNG.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Exactly.