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Re:YaCy takes on Google with open source search engine by wilkenm on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @12:39AM (#3289256)
The distributed search model that YaCy uses would never work in a large scale enterprise. Security, safe harbor, etc are all difficult enough using a traditional, centralized approach. Trying to imagine this done in a distributed way across the enterprise is giving me a headache.

And the closest thing to open source, turnkey search is gluing together Apache SOLR and a web crawler. Lucid Imagination offers this (plus other features) as a commercial product, but it not open source to the best of my knowledge.

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Re:YaCy takes on Google with open source search engine by halfasleep on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @07:22AM (#3290025)
I was playing with YaCy a little, and there is an "Intranet" mode. As far as I can make out, this can operate in a distributed way, but behind the firewall. I didn't look into how to set it up in great detail yet though, was playing with web search.
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