Following the release on Monday of YaCy 1.0, a free, peer-to-peer search engine, many in the media were quick to view it as a challenge to Google, Bing and the other big contenders in the search arena ...

The way we search for information has changed, and it's only set to expedite as we move into the world of artificial intelligence. We've seen this already with the more popular search engines favoring ...

The first version of a distributed search engine called YaCy has been released, partly as a response to the perceived privacy threats inherent in Google. The YaCy project, backed by the Free Software ...

Mainstream search engines like Google are pretty good at what they do, but many people choose not to use them because of privacy concerns. Then there are those who are concerned about content falling ...

Free software activists have released a peer-to-peer search engine to take on Google, Yahoo, Bing and others. The free, distributed search engine, YaCy, takes a new approach to search. Rather than ...

When Google was a mere babe among search giants like Yahoo, AltaVista, Lycos and WebCrawler, geeks across the world promoted its use thanks to its cleaner interface and the fact that it focussed only ...

YaCy invites users to download software that turns their computer into part of a peer-to-peer network that will deliver search results without sending requests to a central server. Processing is ...

An open source project, called YaCy, aims to break Google's headlock on the search market, by giving away an open source search engine that can be used both online and within an intranet, The Register ...

Users of YaCy are being encouraged to download and run the search software for themselves Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search sites have a new rival called YaCy. Backed by free software activists, ...

YaCy, an open source distributed search engine, works pretty much like its mainstream peers, but doesn’t suffer from any of their ills. YaCy uses a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, so every user running an ...