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 ...

YaCy, a German search company brought into being by the Free Software Foundation of Europe (FSFE) has released a peer-to-peer search engine that uses networked systems to index the web and deliver ...

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 ...

A new type of search engine has been launched this week which is hoping to take on the search giant Google at its own game. The new search engine named YaCy (pronounced “Ya See”) has been designed to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Preceived privacy threats in Google and other search engines have prompted the creation of a new search engine dubbed YaCy. The project, backed by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), unleashed ...

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 ...