YaCy?

[jojo]

Anyone know anything about it?

Is it any good?

Is it worth installing?

Any comments?

[elvisuk]

I use Bittorrent myself

[mikkh]

A distributed Web crawler and caching HTTP/HTTPS proxy built on the principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

Web Search by the people, for the people

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.

Hmm, I'm not that paranoid, I'll stick to Google

[jojo]

I was hoping it might provide some better results really. Goofle has been good but in the last few years, it is increasingly returning adverts. The same ones, over and over. Fortunately, no sex sites usually. But still, be nice to get what I actually want rather than hoping some advirtiser hasn't completely squeezed out everything else.

This is a huge download and as far as I can gather, means I will be acting as a server for others users as they are for me.

That much is a pain really.

Thanks for the advice mikkh.

[mikkh]

21 MB huge? Yeah the stealing of bandwidth even though I've got loads puts me off
I use adblockplus with firefox, I don't see any adverts here

[jojo]

Nov 29, 2011 13:29:58 GMT @elvisuk said:

I use Bittorrent myself

Thank you for your response Elvis. Sorry I didn't reply first.

Isn't bittorrent designed to search for and download, online files?

I'm really looking for a fairly decent search engine to find sites offering information on various matters.

[buzzy]

i use Ixquick as my main search engine, has never let me down. Give it a try.

www.ixquick.com/

[elvisuk]

"I use Bittorrent myself " Sorry Jojo i did not read the post properly thort you was no about peer to peer

[jojo]

No problem Elvis.

Thanks Buzzy, will give that a try.