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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 noodlejetski@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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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[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. The creator included the !bang feature. Nice. Gonna have to play with this more.

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

yup, every engine that supports !bangs gets my attention immediately.

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I should probably know what this does but I'm thinking I don't. Could somebody explain?

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 19 points 9 months ago

They're ways to search on a specific site from the engine's search bar. For instance, !gsch cows will search for cows on google scholar from DuckDuckGo. I don't know how stamdardized bangs are across engines, but they're super useful if you use a bunch of obscure search tools on the day to day.