YaCy
YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
EUPlatforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
- Support for Themes
Features
- Decentralized
- Peer-To-Peer
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
- No registration required
- No Logs
- Dark Mode
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Recent News
Recent activities
- ChildishGiant reviewed YaCy
Good in theory but in practice it's slow and awkward to use. A modern rewrite using modern federation protocols could go far.
- snowbirdcrossing updated YaCy
- snowbirdcrossing added Support for Themes as a feature to YaCy
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What is YaCy?
YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of web pages. It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index.
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Developed by
Michael Peter Christen et al. Licensing
Open Source and Free product.Written in
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89 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
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Online Services, Security & Privacy, File SharingGitHub repository
- 3,767 Stars
- 471 Forks
- 199 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Better than google as it is decentralized and does not censor results. Does not push a liberal agenda like google and most search engines.
Good in theory but in practice it's slow and awkward to use. A modern rewrite using modern federation protocols could go far.
Prequisites You either need Java or Docker. I'm using Docker. It works. Has a learning curve. I'm hoping to use it vs ftp for one purpose, and to set up a specialized search engine.
If anyone succeeded in opening it, please contact me.
someone reported the wrong home page, the right one is http://yacy.net
I use it sometimes , and I like its principle