Today’s find: An amazing listing of existing search engines: those using #Google & Bing’s indexes & many more.

“The 3 dominant English search engines with their own indexes are Google, Bing, & Yandex (GBY). Many alternatives to GBY exist, but almost none of them have their own results; instead, they just source their results from GBY.

“With that in mind, I decided to test & catalog all the different indexing search engines I could find.”

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/?ref=404media.co

h/t https://www.404media.co/this-guy-is-building-an-open-source-search-engine-in-real-time/

This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time

"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.

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}