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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 29, 2011 21:13 UTC (Tue) by elanthis (guest, #6227)
Parent article: Web Search By The People, For The People: YaCy 1.0

I look forward to when p2p search allows adolescent dorks to insert goatse links into random search queries. The Internet will surely be better then than it is with evil companies like Google at the helm now.


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

Posted Nov 29, 2011 23:21 UTC (Tue) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]

> I look forward to when p2p search allows adolescent dorks to insert
> goatse links into random search queries.

Luckily for you, those happy days are already here:
http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html

You just need to modify that script a bit.

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

Posted Nov 29, 2011 23:26 UTC (Tue) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]

Er, "happy" is intended to be sarcastic here. I keep forgetting that sarcasm doesn't work on the internet. Anyway, don't trust random access points that you find out there!

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

Posted Nov 30, 2011 5:42 UTC (Wed) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]

I actually have run that before. I think it's great.

That's not at all the same thing as relying on a p2p network where you can get bogus, malevolent results while using the service properly and appropriately. "Stealing" my bandwidth is one thing, and screwing with those people is hilarious, but I don't expect to be mistreated when I do a search on google.com.

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