FSF Europe starts distributed search engine, seeks peers & developers

http://yacy.net/

As well as WWW, YaCy can be used for intranets and other networks such
as Tor. There's a writeup in ComputerworldNZ[1], which appears
syndicated from Belgium:

"The free, distributed search engine, YaCy, takes a new approach to
search. Rather than using a central server, its search results come
from a network of independent "peers," users who have downloaded the
YaCy software. The aim is that no single entity gets to decide what
gets listed, or in which order results appear.

"Most of what we do on the Internet involves search. It's the vital
link between us and the information we're looking for. For such an
essential function, we cannot rely on a few large companies and
compromise our privacy in the process," said Michael Christen, YaCy's
project leader."


Tim McNamara
paperlessprojects.com

[1]  http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/free-software-activists-to-take-on-google


p.s. I think it's the first time that Computer World NZ has used
GNU/Linux before Windows in an article

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