Promising, but not ready for primetime. I spent the last two days using it as my phone’s default search after you mentioned it, and… well, I went back to Google, at least for now.
Stract.com also looks promising.
Areldyb@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Zworf@beehaw.org 2 months ago
I put in the name of my home town and the first 2 links were escort sites… Seriously.
Not really impressed so far.
pixel@beehaw.org 2 months ago
stract has same issue mentioned above where search engines are actually the only time i want data on me to be easily accessible. not being able to search “food near me” is frustrating, and no privacy-centered google alternative i’ve been happy with has had that feature. im fine with my location and other relevant metadata on me getting used in a search, as long as that metadata is in a black box restricted to me that doesn’t create a profile for advertising companies
thegreekgeek@midwest.social 2 months ago
Yeah that makes sense. My comment had more to do with the potential of a open source search engine/crawler than anything it currently does. Though I feel the optics feature might be able to account for that eventually.