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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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[-] debanqued@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

#YaCy is an open source crawler that you can run and feed Searx with. I recall some searx instances that run their own YaCy. YaCy can also share indexes with other YaCy instances.

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