Today I had someone visiting my site from http://www.yacy.net/yacy/, so I thought I would check this domain out and see what it’s all about and well what it’s seems to be is a P2P Based Distributed Web Search Engine, I’ve never heard of one before so I’m going to do some more investigation onto what they do, but for now here’s what Information I’ve found so far!

The YaCy project is a new approach to build a P2P-based Web indexing network.

• Search your own or the global index
• Crawl your own pages or start distributed crawling
• Run your peer to support other YaCy crawlers
• Provide Information on your peer using the built-in http-server, file-sharing zone and wiki 
   
• Built-in caching http proxy
• Indexing benefits from the proxy cache; private information is not stored or indexed
• Usage of the proxy is not a requisite for web indexing, but it enables you to access the new top-level-domains ‘.yacy’
• Filter unwanted content like ad- or spyware; share your web-blacklist with other peers
   
• Easy installation! No additional database required!
• No central server!
• GPL’ed, freeware

Start today to contribute to the global index with our own YACY peer!