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 threadAdmiral Patrick

I found the GitHub for it: github.com/StractOrg/stract/tree/main

What I still can’t figure out (in my very shallow dive into the repo) is if it’s a meta search engine like Searx-NG or if it does its own crawling and builds its own search index.

Anyone know?

GitHub - StractOrg/stract: web search done right

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Show threaddblsaikoFeb 10, 2024

From the readme, it uses its own index:

Fully independent search index.

Also here’s a related discussion: github.com/StractOrg/stract/discussions/136

Storing warc files? · StractOrg stract · Discussion #136

Hey there! I noticed in this reply you (Mikkel) mention that you're crawling to WARC files. Are you keeping these around after indexing? I imagine the storage requirements for that would get quite ...

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Show threaddebanquedFeb 20, 2024
#YaCy is an open source crawler that you can run and feed Searx with. I recall some searx instances that run their own YaCy. YaCy can also share indexes with other YaCy instances.