YaCy takes on Google with open source search engine
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YaCy takes on Google with open source search engine
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Re: YaCy takes on Google with open source search engine
#2I'm liking this P2P trend which seems to be spreading everywhere. I don't think we're ready to have everything P2P yet, but it's good to see the trend growing. At least now we know that if or when Google will be forced to censor more results than we'd like them to, there will be a P2P alternative available waiting for us.
Re: YaCy takes on Google with open source search engine
#3I'm sure a lot of people are interested in the implementation details of YaCy's privacy mechanisms. Does anyone know the default privacy settings? Are search words that are sent in any way protected? I found this page:
http://yacy-websuche.de/wiki/index.php/En:Privacy
But it's not that helpful. I'm currently looking at the source code: https://gitorious.org/yacy .
Re: YaCy takes on Google with open source search engine
#4I'm liking this P2P trend which seems to be spreading everywhere. I don't think we're ready to have everything P2P yet, but it's good to see the trend growing. At least now we know that if or when Google will be forced to censor more results than we'd like them to, there will be a P2P alternative available waiting for us.
Let's hope your views are like those saying the same before open source came into it's own. We live in exciting times...
Re: YaCy takes on Google with open source search engine
#5Was that subtitle necessary ("good idea, stupid name"), people probably thought Google and Yahoo were stupid names at first too.
Re: YaCy takes on Google with open source search engine
#6"Build a search engine" == "takes on Google" ? Well ... I guess so.
Re: YaCy takes on Google with open source search engine
#7The intranet search engine concept is interesting and will help this grow. Anyone know of anything else which is a search engine in a box, basically an open source competitor to the various Google Search Appliances?
Re: YaCy takes on Google with open source search engine
#8The intranet search engine concept is interesting and will help this grow. Anyone know of anything else which is a search engine in a box, basically an open source competitor to the various Google Search Appliances?
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.
Re: YaCy takes on Google with open source search engine
#9YaCy (while a cool project) is not new and has been around for lots of years now. I think it has quite some potential, but don't expect it to suddenly lift of. It had enough time to do so, but didn't.
Re: YaCy takes on Google with open source search engine
#10IMO what's missing in the search space is a web search engine with an API, especially with access to the raw crawled content. Amazon used to do this was the Alexa web crawl data ( see http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/alexa_turned_in.php ) but later withdrew that part of the service.