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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 23:21 UTC (Tue) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)
In reply to: Web Search By The People, For The People: YaCy 1.0 by elanthis
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.

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.


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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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