Distributed Search Engine
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Submitted by Alcuin on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 7:05pm
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Off and on, Correntians bemoan the lack of an alternative to Google as a search engine. I use Yippie! and the 100 Search Engine plug-in for Firefox to avoid using Google. I just came across this interesting idea and wanted to share it with everyone: YaCy. YaCy (maybe that is slang spelling for "You See"?) is a distributed search engine that works by enlisting the computers of all users who install the open source free software. It's worth checking out, I think. The search results are quite limited right now, but who knows what they'll look like in a year or two?
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That's really cool!
Complaints about Google sometimes have an everyone-complains-about-the-weather feel to them, so it's very nice to see someone actually do something about it.
I installed Yacy...
... and the search results (in general) aren't good enough yet.
However, there is also the user case of getting it to index a particular domain or one's internet. That would be interesting.