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YaCy

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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...

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Country of Origin

  • DE flagGermany
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Online
  • Self-Hosted
4.3 / 5 Avg rating (3)
141likes
4comments
0news articles

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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Decentralized
  2.  Peer-To-Peer
  3.  No Tracking
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  No registration required
  6.  No Logs
  7.  Dark Mode

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  • WeTheManyNamed liked YaCy
    3 days ago
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    Danilo_Venom added YaCy as alternative to Peekr
    about 2 months ago
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    POX added YaCy as alternative to Waterfox Private Search
    about 2 months ago
  • thesuncitywitch liked YaCy
    about 2 months ago
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    OpenSourceSoftware added YaCy as alternative to Freespoke
    3 months ago
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    K0RR added YaCy as alternative to Araa
    3 months ago
  • ekroberts73 liked YaCy
    5 months ago
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    refoorest added YaCy as alternative to refoorest
    5 months ago
  • not_cool liked YaCy
    7 months ago
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    bitmo added YaCy as alternative to WebCrawler and MetaCrawler
    9 months ago
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YaCy information

  • Developed by

    DE flagMichael Peter Christen et al.
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.3
  • Alternatives

    91 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

Online ServicesFile SharingSecurity & Privacy

GitHub repository

  •  3,595 Stars
  •  453 Forks
  •  215 Open Issues
  •   Updated Apr 10, 2025 
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Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about YaCy, and it has gotten 141 likes

YaCy was added to AlternativeTo by kardin89 on Dec 21, 2011 and this page was last updated May 27, 2022.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Guest
Jan 18, 2019
-2

Better than google as it is decentralized and does not censor results. Does not push a liberal agenda like google and most search engines.

TBayAreaPat
Sep 8, 2024
0

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.

Deviated
Apr 30, 2017
1

If anyone succeeded in opening it, please contact me.

0rb1t3r
Apr 9, 2020

someone reported the wrong home page, the right one is http://yacy.net

11009723
Jul 19, 2016
2

I use it sometimes , and I like its principle

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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