Stract
Open-source web search engine you can self-host
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
Stract replaces
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