This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time

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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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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.

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