This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time
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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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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!
It's a free account, like the one you made so you can write your comment. I'd hardly call it paywalled.
Tbh I just saw it needed a login and scrolled back up to the link without reading further, so was obviously a bit hasty in my assessment of it being a paywall.
I did a few searches but had terrible results.
Searching for "Tokyo", I got a summary about some Indonesian food chain. I had to scroll down quite a bit to get info about the city.
It looks interesting, but seems far from ready.