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* Package name : yacy Version : 0.55 Upstream Author : Michael Christen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://yacy.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: Java Description : distributed web crawler and search engine YaCy is a scalable personal web crawler and web search engine. One YaCy installation can organize more than 10 million documents, but YaCy can operate search clusters of unlimited size. YaCy has a peer-to-peer web index exchange interface and it does not need a central server. Web crawls can be done collaborative with all other YaCy peers. Resulting indexes are organized in a distributed hash table, and search requests are pointed efficiently to specific, index-hosting peers. YaCy can not only index texts from various file formats but also from different media contents. A search result shows interesting text, image, audio and video content with direct links to OGG, MP3, and video files. Because YaCy is fully distributed, search results cannot be completely censored, only filtered by single peer owners. However, in a privatly operated search network the software provides a strong functionality to control the content of the search cluster. In a public search network, a user is anonymous because there is no central point where all search requests can be stored. YaCy has a large number of users running their own peer to create a independent and open search engine. The standard YaCy release is configured in such a way that the software joins this public network. The software has a number of community function like a co-operative bookmark system, a news, blog and built-in wiki system. -- Luca Brivio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
