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.

I will say I’m pretty glad to see a search engine which actually is not just a meta search engine. I wish Kagi would attempt this rather than partnerning with Brave.

One thing I find odd though is why these engines trying to make their own index don’t do the adversarial strategy that Brave Search has done : while using other indexes, collect what people actually click on and use it in your own index. I will note that I do not support Brave.

It’s not just a meta search. They do have their own index. And Brave is only one of a dozen-ish external index’s they also use.
Yes. Kagi doesn’t partner with Brave. They use Brave’s search index.