

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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- Free • Open Source
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Country of Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
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- WeTheManyNamed liked YaCy
- POX added YaCy as alternative to Waterfox Private Search
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- bitmo added YaCy as alternative to WebCrawler and MetaCrawler
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Online Services, File Sharing, Security & PrivacyGitHub repository
- 3,595 Stars
- 453 Forks
- 215 Open Issues
- Updated Apr 10, 2025
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.
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