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?
I still use DDG as my “daily driver” (I know there are better options for privacy and avoiding big tech, but I haven’t yet found anything independent that is good enough for me to switch to full time yet). I bookmarked Stract a while back, and it proved useful a few months back when Microsoft had an outage that took down Bing and by extension, Duck Duck Go. I do like Stract, their index seems to be enough larger than MoJeek (another independent search with their own index) that it gives me better results.
Stract might not be as open as I’d like, but it’s nice to have as an option, and I’m never going to complain about having more search providers with independent indexes.
given the amount of time stract has been around i doubt that they have 8-billion plus pages like Mojeek