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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Ok, hold on...

Can it be self-hosted?

Looks like it from the readme!

Amazing, will try this out on the Pi then.

I was wondering the same, but I didn't find any information on how it builds the search index. I guess it takes quite a while until it's usable. Also, it might be very dependent on the speed if the internet connection and also the available storage.

In the github page linked in this post:

We recommend everyone to use the hosted version at stract.com, but you can also follow the steps outlined in CONTRIBUTING.md to setup the engine locally.