Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees

Re:Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees by thekyle on Thursday March 07, 2019 @04:08AM (#19326601)

> maybe I misunderstood b/c it says here YaCy _has_ a link graph: https://yacy.net/en/API.html

That link graph being referenced is the local nodes one, not a global one. So it only yields links that have been discovered by the node you are sending the request to.

You could send a request to each node individually and aggregate the results, however, you have no way to verify the nodes are being honest without actually crawling those pages yourself.

If I may ask, what is the project that you are working on?

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Re:Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees by misterman0 on Thursday March 07, 2019 @12:02PM (#19329694)

Ic. Thx!

I'm working on a project similar to the YaCy one. The main difference is that I do not want or even require that each node trust each other. I let the user decide who they trust.

https://github.com/kreeben/resin

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Re:Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees by misterman0 on Thursday March 07, 2019 @12:15PM (#19329842)

>> it only yields links that have been discovered by the node you are sending the request to

Wait! YaCy is a little bit hard to understand. I don't mean that in any way other than in an extremely encouraging way.

What do you mean exactly? A YaCy node will interrogate the "swarm" of data and that interrogation might yield more links compared to if you interrogate another node?

What's that all about?

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