Stract Search Engine: Deactivated in Early June – ResearchBuzz: Firehose
August 17, 2026
Stract Search Engine: Deactivated in Early June
Stract is gone. You might remember me mentioning an open search engine called Stract that I was using for some search experiments a couple years ago. I went to check on an API question and found that the search engine had been taken down. The developer, Mikkel Denker, told me he took the site down in early June. I told him I appreciated the work he put into Stract. Small search engines aren’t appreciated enough.
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