Live image of the ‘freeworld’ network with 850 Peers / July 2013
In the course of the current data protection scandals alternative solutions are welcome to search the Internet. An interesting solution is Yacy, a search software that provides a decentralized search engine based on a peer-to-peer network. All searches are local stored and can be supplemented with results of other users through a peer-to-peer network, which improves the quality of search requests and a centralized storages thereof is prevented. Besides its function as a search engine for the Internet Yacy can also be used as a search portal on the intranet. The open-source software, which is supported in English, German, French, Spanish and Arabic, can be installed on PCs with Windows, Apple OSX and Linux operating systems easily and free, of course!
The website of the project provide comprehensive services with FAQ, forum, wiki, blog, etc. YaCy is a real alternative search engines, which will hopefully find many users and also financial supporters.
