YaCy

What is YaCy?

YaCy is a free and decentralized search engine that enables individuals and organizations to build their own search portals for private or public use. By contributing to the worldwide peer network, users can collectively index billions of web pages, with the scale limited only by the number of participants. The key feature of YaCy is its fully decentralized architecture, where all users on the network are equal, and there is no centralized storage of user search requests or potential censorship of the shared index. This empowers users to take control of their own search experience and data privacy, while also contributing to a collaborative, transparent, and uncensored search ecosystem

Highlights

• Decentralized architecture with no central authority or data storage
• Ability to build custom search portals for private intranets or the public internet
• Collaborative indexing of web pages, leveraging the network's collective scale
• No censorship or user data collection by a central entity
• Equal participation and rights for all users on the network