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
- Decentralized
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
- Support for Themes
Features
- Peer-To-Peer
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
- No Logs
- No registration required
- Dark Mode
YaCy News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
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YaCy is private, crowdsourced, free, resilient, and adaptable. In short, it's everything that people say that they want in a search engine; unfortunately, these things come at the cost of the sleek, snappy, often-invasive search engines that people have become accustomed to using: in other words, to get the best from it, the project requires you to participate in it. YaCy can be buggy, there's a learning curve, and it has a user interface similar to P2P networks from the early 2000s. Still,...
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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
Rating
Average rating of 4Alternatives
90 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Categories
Online Services, Security & Privacy, File SharingGitHub repository
- 3,874 Stars
- 474 Forks
- 224 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
YaCy is private, crowdsourced, free, resilient, and adaptable. In short, it's everything that people say that they want in a search engine; unfortunately, these things come at the cost of the sleek, snappy, often-invasive search engines that people have become accustomed to using: in other words, to get the best from it, the project requires you to participate in it. YaCy can be buggy, there's a learning curve, and it has a user interface similar to P2P networks from the early 2000s. Still, these issues shouldn't distract from what it is or what it could be with a little more support.
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.
Better than google as it is decentralized and does not censor results. Does not push a liberal agenda like google and most search engines.
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