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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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[-] Corgana@startrek.website 21 points 9 months ago

I’d pay for independent, non meta, ad-free search.

You might, but not enough people would to make it sustainable. Neeva was really well loved but couldn't make the math work.

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