Mainstream search engines like Google are pretty good at what they do, but many people choose not to use them because of privacy concerns. Then there are those who are concerned about content falling through the cracks just because the creator hasn’t followed the best practices for search engine optimization (SEO).
YaCy, an open source distributed search engine, works pretty much like its mainstream peers, but doesn’t suffer from any of their ills. YaCy uses a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, so every user running an instance of the search engine joins in the effort to index the internet. The index is distributed and redundant across all YaCy users.
To further bolster its privacy credentials, YaCy ensures that no one can tell who has searched for what words, in essence making all searches functionally anonymous.
YaCy only indexes publicly accessible, non-password-protected pages. You can also use it as a search engine for your website, or use it to index pages on the intranet, which it ensures aren’t accessible to anyone outside your network.
Installation
YaCy is written in Java and runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Search engines are complex beasts, but thanks to YaCy’s distributed nature, you don't need a fast machine, nor a lot of space to run a YaCy client.
Installation is fairly simple. Before you begin, ensure you have Java installed on the machine. Windows and macOS users can obtain pre-built binaries from Adoptium, while Linux users can pull it from their official...
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