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This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time (www.404media.co)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Yes. Kagi doesn’t partner with Brave. They use Brave’s search index.