"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 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.

      • elvith@feddit.de
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        8 months ago

        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)

      • Melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Interestingly the source you linked says that they do have an in-house web index, they just use it alongside other sources rather than using it as their only source