noodle (he/him)Feb 10, 2024

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

https://lemm.ee/post/23315957

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

“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.

Show threadChris

To save reading the paywalled article, the site is at 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!

Stract

Feb 10, 2024 at 4:47pmWeb
Show threadluciole (they/them)Feb 10, 2024
It’s a free account, like the one you made so you can write your comment. I’d hardly call it paywalled.
Show threadChrisFeb 10, 2024
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.
Show threadHawkFeb 11, 2024

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.