Help make searching uncluttered and open source

[tasmod]

A new search engine site is hoping to grow. It's called YaCy

It's based on Open Source ideals.

There's a report on the BBC news sitehere

The search web page is here.


It's overloaded at the moment but will pop up if you retry a few times.

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

[Flash]

There's also Sphinx. I'm not sure if it is the same thing exactly but it looks like it might replace the present forum Search and it is open source. (Thanks, Aitch. )

[Terryphi]

If web privacy is your major concern try DuckDuckGo which is now default search engine for Opera and Linux Mint :

http://duckduckgo.com/

[urban soul]

Yacy is great. But wont run as root. So I edited the startYacy.sh script, to disable the check. Now there are other wired java errors in /DATA/LOG/yacyXX.log such as

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class net.yacy.cora.protocol.http.HTTPClient

Could someone please check?? I try to run Yacy for some time now.

This would be a great improvement for PUPPY. Freedom of information is a crucial thing for us all.

[urban soul]

Seeks is another very interesting alternative:

http://www.seeks-project.info/search.php/websearch-hp