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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)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Amazing, will try this out on the Pi then.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I was wondering the same, but I didn't find any information on how it builds the search index. I guess it takes quite a while until it's usable. Also, it might be very dependent on the speed if the internet connection and also the available storage.