YaCy – The Peer to Peer Search Engine

by sammatilda on 5/17/2018, 6:28:14 AM with 3 comments

  • by chatmasta on 5/17/2018, 10:52:38 AM

    This project has been around for years (created in 2003 according to wikipedia). In fact I submitted it 3 years ago. [0]

    It's awesome but not Show HN (unless you made it)

    [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8746883

  • by terlacious on 5/17/2018, 9:29:32 AM

    Hey, this is actually pretty cool! I have some questions.

    On this page [1] there is mention of documents being stored locally. How much memory does this take up on the user's machine? What about pruning of old documents?

    I'm aware that you're not targeting the smartphone space as of yet (I can't see any downloads for Android and iOS), but as the majority of searches do come from a smartphone, I'm wondering if YaCy is planning on moving into that space? If so, those previous questions about storage and pruning are very much relevant.

    [1]: https://yacy.net/en/Technology.html