Blog post and demo: Making a custom search engine using Common Crawl web archives and Stract

[jimpick]

I've been experimenting with using Stract for making custom search engines, and I've had some success.

I wrote a blog post with a demo here:

• https://6kgrunw3nwza.vichex.ca/posts/2025-07-17-search-experiment/

It goes into detail about how I got it working and has links to my GitHub fork and data files needed.