Free Software Websearch software: Yacy

Free Software Websearch software: Yacy

Posted May 2, 2007 14:26 UTC (Wed) by ber (subscriber, #2142)
Parent article: Wikipedia co-founder wants open-source search engine (ZDNet)

There is an interesting Free Software for searching the web, even peer to peer, called Yacy. Its main disadvantage is that it is written in Java and last time I have looked did not run nicely enough on Free Software Java stacks.

Later in the ZDNet article I found the following interesting quote which makes it look unlikely that Yacy is considered: Not mentioned in the press release is the fact that Wikia is a for-profit venture. The complete business plan has yet to be worked out, but profits and revenue may be derived from advertising or services, Penchina said.

If I want a next generation search provider, it should be _not_ financed by advertisments.

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