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Stract

Open-source web search engine you can self-host

Search Engines Archived ★ 2.4k stars Hard setup AGPL-3.0

This project is archived. Upstream development has stopped, so expect no new features or security fixes. Consider an actively maintained search engines alternative.

Stract is an open-source web search engine built from scratch in Rust. It includes its own crawler and index and aims to give users more transparency and control over ranking.

Key features

  • Independent web crawler and index
  • Customizable ranking signals
  • Optic-based result filtering
  • Modern Rust implementation

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Transparent ranking
  • Independent index

Trade-offs

  • Large hardware requirements for full crawl

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