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Stract: Independent and Open Search (stract.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just found this search engine while searching for something like Kagi.

It seems like it is not a meta search engine, but one with its own index. Awesome.

It has kagi's manual website ranking. It even has so called optics (like Kagi's lenses), for example an optic for the Fediverse lets you search only the fediverse.

What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Just as a warning, this is licensed under the AGPL, with a CLA that requires copyright assignment. So, they could pull the rug at any time:

2.3 Outbound License. Based on the grant of rights in Sections 2.1 and 2.2, if We include Your Contribution in a Material, We may license the Contribution under any license, including copyleft, permissive, commercial, or proprietary licenses.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Quickest peak and then utter vanishing of any interest in a project I've had in a while.

Wouldn't mind something a little more open than SearXNG in that it owns it's own database, but requiring that they be the sole owner of anything anyone contributes AND having the ability to yank the rug at any time they feel like it pretty much puts it in the meh-who-cares category.

Had enough stupid shit yanked over the past few years that I really just don't care or have time to deal with any that is already prepping for their eventual enshittification.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This how people end up on the foss purist path... Been hurt too many times for be trusting any bros again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

100%.

I see a CLA or a goofy "source-available" license, I just assume it's going to be a rugpull and that I should move on. I very much do not give anyone the benefit of the doubt anymore.

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