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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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[-] Steve@communick.news 6 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] ioslife@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

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

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