FOSS to take on search giants

November 29, 2011 by shabinesh

There is Identica to replace Twitter and Diaspora to replace Facebook, hang on a minute! for Google? Yeah! YaCy is here.

YaCy is a distributed search engine, instead of using centralized servers YaCy is a network of "peers", servers which has installed the software.

Advantages:

1. We might not have to compromise on privacy.
2. There might no be any restriction or censoring of information, as most of the search giant have to power and control of what results should appear.
3. It's a search engine powered by user, rather not a single company.

What YaCy says about itself?
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. We want to achieve freedom of information through a free, distributed web search which is powered by the world's users.

You can try it at http://search.yacy.net/