YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build search the internet (www and ftp) or to create a search portal for others (internet or intranet). The scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users and can index billions of web pages. In p2p mode it is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the distributed index.

Features

  • Web Crawling
  • Your Own Search Portal
  • Intranet Indexing
  • Drop-In Replacement of Google Search Appliance
  • Embedded Solr - provides Solr API
  • Peer-to-Peer Index Sharing

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License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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User Reviews

  • AT long last I can search the internet again without being bombarded by MSM links and various government propaganda. And the Admin/crawling sections are simply awesome!
  • More people should be working on this and using it.
  • Thanks for Yacy, it's great!
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • I don't know why more people aren't using this nice piece of software.
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Languages

English, French, German

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop, Information Technology, Non-Profit Organizations, System Administrators

User Interface

Web-based

Programming Language

Java

Database Environment

Other API

Related Categories

Java Search Engines, Java Networking Software, Java Distributed Computing Software, Java Virtualization Software

Registered

2004-08-04