DIY Hunting Engine Takes On Google

Google, Bing, Yahoo and other looking sites have a new opponent called YaCy.

Backed by giveaway program activists, YaCy aims to literally put looking in to the hands of users by distributing its indexing engine around the net.

Anyone can download the YaCy program and help the looking network upgrade and expansion the bucket of queries.

Its creators moreover hope YaCy will be ample harder to edit our than existing systems that siren queries by centralised servers.

The YaCy looking page was non-stop to the open on 28 November and now has about 600 participants or peers that share the bucket of queries and the charge of indexing information.

"Most of what you do on the internet involves search," mentioned Michael Christen, YaCy's plan personality in a statement. "It's the key couple between us and the data we're looking for."

"For such an necessary function, you cannot rest on a couple of considerable companies, and negotiate our privacy in the process," he said.

YaCy (pronounced "Ya See") is upheld by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) that campaigns on digital rights and tries to help people manage their own digital destiny.

FSFE mentioned YaCy helps privacy by encrypting all queries and by vouchsafing counterpart owners erect up and manage their own looking profile.

"We are relocating divided from the thought that services must be mainly controlled," mentioned Karsten Gerloff, boss of the FSFE. "Instead, you are realising how critical it is to be independent, and to emanate infrastructure that doesn't have a singular indicate of failure."

YaCy program is existing for Windows, Linux and MacOS and users are being speedy to download and run it for themselves.

The initial chronicle of YaCy has been used and elegant on intranets is to FSFE and the Sciencenet looking site.

On its gap day, the YaCy demo page struggled to hoop all the queries forthcoming its way.

The prospects for YaCy's success are churned as there have many other pretenders to Google's crown. One of the many notable was a looking engine called Cuil that was set up by two one-time Google workers.

Cuil launched in 2008 and struggled to win over poignant figures of users. It close down in late September, 2010.