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Stract

Name: Stract
Brand: Stract
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)

Open-source search engine with its own crawler. Customisable ranking, optional Sidekick LLM integration.

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At a glance

Grade: B ()
KYC posture: anonymous signup
Fees: Free · Rust · self-hostable
Last verified: 2026-05-13
Operating since: 2020 · 6y — WHOIS 2020 predates archive.org first snapshot 2005; treated as current-entity year (domain may have been re-registered)

B Why grade B?

Solid pick. Verified working but with a meaningful caveat (UX rough, smaller market, intermediate trust step, partial coverage). Listed because the trade-off is sometimes worth it.

Full rubric + 7-step verification walkthrough at /methodology.

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

Audit trail — receipts for the editorial claim

● UPSTREAM Up · HTTP 200 · 67ms · checked 2h ago
○ ONION No .onion mirror listed
✎ MANUAL Last manual verification 2026-05-13 (<90d)
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