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Web Search By The People, For The People: YaCy 1.0

Web Search By The People, For The People: YaCy 1.0

Posted Nov 28, 2011 23:17 UTC (Mon) by josh (subscriber, #17465)
Parent article: Web Search By The People, For The People: YaCy 1.0

I tried a few test searches, and didn't seem to get many useful results at all. Searching for [debian] did not produce any debian.org results anywhere on the first page. Similarly, searching for [google] did not produce google.com (or any other google domain) on the first page. Searching for [lwn] produced one random LWN comment, but nothing else. Searching for [linux] produced a page full of links to the Wikipedia articles on Linux in numerous different languages, in no sensible order.


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Web Search By The People, For The People: YaCy 1.0

Posted Nov 29, 2011 10:58 UTC (Tue) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

Afaict, it searches only sites where it is installed. Presumably debian.org hasn't installed it. (So, no, it won't be a google killer. But there may still be a market for it, if it does local searches fast and well.)

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