"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.

      • MelmiEnglish
        1•5 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

        • @debanqued@beehaw.org
          1•4 months ago

          #DuckDuckGo makes the same claim as well. IMO it’s a great marketing tactic to say “we have our own crawler” to imply to people they will get some unique results-- but I’m not convinced that supplemental crawlers are significant. They are all too happy to rely on the crutch of the search engines they source from.

      • @elvith@feddit.de
        1•5 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)

    • lemmyreaderEnglish
      5•5 months ago

      Yes, I’ve seen Kagi mentioned quite often here on Lemmy.

      Though Kagi seems Tor unfriendlly maybe.