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YaCy

Search Engine Software

YaCy is free software for your own search engine.

Join a community of search engines or make your own search portal!

There are these three use cases you can choose from:

P2P Mode

YaCy Use Case: Freeworld

Web Search by the people, for the people: decentralized, all users
are equal, no central, no search request storage, shared index.

Your Search Portal

YaCy Use Case: Web Portal

Your YaCy installation is independent from other peers. Define your
own web index and starting your own web crawl.

Intranet Search

YaCy Use Case: Intranet

Create a search portal for your intranet or web pages or your
(shared) file system.


Decentralization

Imagine if, rather than relying on the proprietary software of a
large professional search engine operator, your search engine was run
across many private devices, not under the control of any one company
or individual. Well, that's what YaCy does!

Here is a live image of the YaCy network:

YaCy P2P Network

Installation is easy!

The installation takes only three minutes. Just download the release,
decompress the package and run the start script.

Next Steps:

Download and Install YaCy Watch screenshots and tutorial movies Try
out the YaCy Demo Peer



Products

YaCy is both the name of a project and the name of a software. Our
main 'product' (it's free-software) is the YaCy Search Server.

GDPR Compliance

YaCy has a strong connection to privacy-aware tools. As such it does
not collect personalized data. It also has no 'phoning-home'
integrated. This web page does not use cookies. However, linked
services may have cookies.

Company

The brand 'YaCy' is owned by a private company. While the software
YaCy is a non-profit, we also provide consulting for YaCy and
search-related business topics. To run the non-profit YaCy project we
heavily depend on community support either as contribution to our
software and documentation or as donations. Please donate! To contact
us, please see Impressum

Follow Us

  * YaCy Community: community.searchlab.eu
  * Patreon: patreon.com/orbiterlab
  * Mastodon: @orbiterlab@sigmoid.social
  * Twitter: @yacy_search
  * Github Sponsors: github.com/sponsors/Orbiter
  * YaCy Tutorials: youtube.com/YaCyTutorials
  * GitHub: yacy_search_server

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