YaCy: Decentralized Web Search

Re:YaCy: Decentralized Web Search by hysan on Saturday December 13, 2014 @07:27PM (#8747025)

This has been around for a long time.[1] Has there been any noteworthy changes/improvements that prompted the making a new submission? I've always wondered if I should run this but ever since DuckDuckGo came out, I never went through with setting up a self hosted search engine.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3288586

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Re:YaCy: Decentralized Web Search by atmosx on Saturday December 13, 2014 @07:48PM (#8747075)

Hm, it's computationally expensive thing to do and the crawler must be feeded and "crawl" 26/7... I mean either is run by a community running many many nodes or an individual with huge resources, otherwise isn't worth it.

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Re:YaCy: Decentralized Web Search by zkhalique on Saturday December 13, 2014 @09:52PM (#8747299)

I'm not sure why a federated search engine much be running 26/7 ... what's so prohibitive about federating it?

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Re:YaCy: Decentralized Web Search by chatmasta on Saturday December 13, 2014 @08:08PM (#8747108)

A collection of well-funded corporations can compose a "community."

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