Search engines » Independent Index
B Stract
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Open-source search engine with its own crawler. Customisable ranking, optional Sidekick LLM integration.
At a glance
- no-KYC signup
- Open-source codebase
- Non-custodial — you hold keys
- Self-hostable
Review
Newer entrant building an independent web index in Rust. Self-hostable; allows users to upweight/downweight domains via a `ranks.txt` config. Aims to surface long-tail community content (forums, wikis) Google buried. Smaller index than Brave but more transparent ranking.
Fees
Free · Rust · self-hostable
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- Upstream up · HTTP 200 · 1019ms · checked 37m ago
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2026-05-13(<7d) - See curator log for Stract
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