Re: FSF Europe starts distributed search engine, seeks peers & developers

 On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:49:51 +1300, Tim McNamara wrote:
> http://yacy.net/

 i don't want to sound like i'm down on this as it is a wonderful 
 project and google should be getting far more free software/data 
 competition than it is, but yacy is 5 years old now.

 does this article say more about computer world than yacy?

 anyway on the subject of the software, i ran a node for a while.
 bonuses: it turned up good results, i'd use it permanently in a 
 heartbeat.
 problem: it's fat, it needs serious RAM and storage, and a lot of 
 bandwidth. a search query downloaded the order of 10s of MB from other 
 peers, and my weedy 384MB RAN/5GB hard drive VPS was not up to it, it 
 started impacting other services on the server.

 has anyone else here tried it, on something more powerful?

 glad to see they're encouraging developers and getting FSF funding, i'd 
 like to see this project take off and become more mainstream

-- 
 robin

 http://fu.ac.nz - Auckland's Free University

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