YaCy - The future? P2P decentralized searching.

[AtreyuKun]

http://yacy.net/en/

YaCy can make all content available to all Internet users - without introducing another monopoly! It is not necessary that every user of the Web operate a YaCy peer, only one installation per 1000 users would probably be sufficient to completely replace centralized search portals.

[lxskllr]

I like this. I don't think I have the free disk space, or a stable enough connection to participate right now, but I'm going to keep my eye on it, and do some in depth reading over the next few days. Central authorities on anything can't be trusted, and this is another piece that brings control back to the user.

[snupy]

This is only one step, although a necessary one. The greater need, in my opinion, is a distributed/anonymous/p2p DNS system. Governments will continue to limit/restrict access to free speech, whether due to government non-approval of said speech, or corporate interests. The only way I see to keep the internet as free as it was developed/intended, is a truly free DNS system beyond the reach of any government. This search system will not solve the underlying problem of government restriction of DNS.

[lxskllr]

This is only one step, although a necessary one. The greater need, in my opinion, is a distributed/anonymous/p2p DNS system. Governments will continue to limit/restrict access to free speech, whether due to government non-approval of said speech, or corporate interests. The only way I see to keep the internet as free as it was developed/intended, is a truly free DNS system beyond the reach of any government. This search system will not solve the underlying problem of government restriction of DNS.

Yea, I agree. The problem is getting the infrastructure in place. There aren't that many people interested. How do you explain the benefits of privacy and freedom to people that willingly give up both to idiotbook?

[snupy]

There aren't that many people interested. How do you explain the benefits of privacy and freedom to people that willingly give up both to idiotbook?

OccpuyDNS?

[justintempler]

I played around with YaCy for a few minutes it looks interesting. I don't think it has the extended capabilities yet to do search strings. "Swedish snus" brings back results that include Swedish OR snus not the two words together in a phrase. It also seems to be CPU intensive using +50% running in the backround while crawling. It's not something I'd want to run in the backround

The best part was I found out about http://scroogle.org/. Scroogle lets you do a Google search minus the cookies minus the ads. http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm

[lxskllr]

That's pretty cool Justin. That should be minus the custom tailored results also. Custom results are a good idea in theory, but they can create an echo chamber of singular opinions. Even something like computer issues. I've googled things for other people that use Windows, but my results are heavily weighted towards Linux. That would be grand if I were looking for myself, but... It's easy enough to override, but I bet most people aren't even aware it's happening.

[Jimbob11]

This is only one step, although a necessary one. The greater need, in my opinion, is a distributed/anonymous/p2p DNS system. Governments will continue to limit/restrict access to free speech, whether due to government non-approval of said speech, or corporate interests. The only way I see to keep the internet as free as it was developed/intended, is a truly free DNS system beyond the reach of any government. This search system will not solve the underlying problem of government restriction of DNS.

Yea, I agree. The problem is getting the infrastructure in place. There aren't that many people interested. How do you explain the benefits of privacy and freedom to people that willingly give up both to idiotbook?

The awesome thing is that you really don't need that many interested people for it to be successful. Aside from myself, I know several people who'd be interested. Extrapolate across the world population and I can see getting the needed numbers. Fortunately, everyone isn't an iphone-carrrying-Facebook-freak.