There is one open source: http://yacy.net/
The only downside is that it requires Java.
Re:Faroo: Peer-To-Peer Web Search
by drakecoffeecake on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @07:22PM
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Yep, yep, yep.
You seem to be exactly right.
> They should build a -real- open p2p distributed system
what's stopping you?
...Oh wait, you want me to install your closed source code on my computers, to give you all my personal data and CPU cycles for you to own and use as you like. (Which you "promise" won't be exploited or abused).
Make no mistake, this is a voluntary botnet for a single party to use to build a company on. This voluntary botnet will provide search engine services from a central point so they can keep the majority of profits without the overhead of paying for resources like every other for-profit company.
This is not Peer-2-Peer it is Peer-2-Company. Also they are late to the party on this approach, Microsoft already tried this with Bing: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses...
This model is just begging for people to troll them by releasing tools to poison their database with nonsense data.
They should build a -real- open p2p distributed system (the blockchain is not perfect but a good example). Short of that if they want to be a for-profit centralized search engine, fine. They should go buy some servers and databases they can directly control. and try to be a closed source competitor to duckduckgo.