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For anyone wondering about how they'll eventually address financial sustainability if Stract takes off:
I'd pay for independent, non meta, ad-free search. I bet a more straightforward approach is more energy efficient as well. In the meanwhile the big tech are running a gazillion processes on our data to suck every bit of wealth they can out of our existence through their free (in it's littlest sense) products.
You might, but not enough people would to make it sustainable. Neeva was really well loved but couldn't make the math work.
Haven't tested it yet, but have seen it mentioned several times here on Lemmy:
https://kagi.com/
Kagi is a meta search engine though. They just do calls to Google, Yandex, Brave, etc. cut the ad rot and sprinkle some secret spice on top.
EDIT: source, https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html