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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)

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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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Kagi is a meta search engine though. They just do calls to Google, Yandex, Brave, etc. cut the ad rot and sprinkle some secret spice on top.

EDIT: source, https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html

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Hmmmm I didn’t know that, every comment that I read, didn’t mention this fact. I’m running my own Searxng instance and Meta engines can be quite powerful, especially when you can adjust them a bit and filter out what you consider “spam” results (e.g. pinterest)

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