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By normchow
via theregister.co.uk
Published: Dec 02 2011 / 15:14
A project calling itself YaCy – pronounced "ya see" – aims to break Google’s headlock on the search market by giving away an open source search engine that can be used both online and within an intranet.
The YaCy engine is based on peer-to-peer connections rather than search queries being run thorough a central server. Users download the software and act as peers for search, ensuring that no content can be censored and no search results can be recorded and analyzed on central servers.
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threepipeproblem replied ago:
“YaCy isn’t a challenge to Google, and is a long way from becoming one,” Gerloff wrote in a blog post on Wednesday. “It’s not even intended to challenge Google. What it is is a new, exciting approach to web search that empowers users.”
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