Making a custom search engine using Common Crawl web archives and Stract
Welcome to the new Hex.Camp dev blog. I’ve been posting the occasional update to my BlueSky account, but I felt it was time to set up a formal blog to capture longer updates.
Building a custom search engine
This blog post describes how I created a custom search engine that indexes the community association websites for Victoria, BC, Canada.
- Try it out here: https://6kgrwaaeaaaa.vichex.ca/
Try some sample searches: “gorge”, “festival”, “harm reduction”, “council”

Read more to find out how it was built…
By Jim Pick
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