YaCy is a free peer-to-peer application for web search

YaCy is a free peer-to-peer application for web search.

This is your web search engine for freedom of information: search requests are anonymous, independend and uncensored.
No central server, no storage of user behaviour.

YaCy can be used as your own, private search engine.

Use YaCy to provide a search function for your own web pages Host web pages with the built-in http-server.

Requirements:

· Java 1.4.2

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added Media Search
· Added search pages for Images, Audio, Video, and Application search.
· Added media links presentation during snippet fetch; the Image Search presents search results as image thumbnails.
· Better recognition of search hits for text snippet generation.
· Media search results are indexed again after remote search results are collected; only media links are used to update the index.
· Better Result Ranking
· New ranking parameters and appearance attributes are now considered.
· Faster ranking; more references can be ranked and sorted within given search time.
· Ranking Parameters can be handed over to remote peers and are applied there.
· Adopted Detailed Search to new ranking parameters.
· Coefficients from detailed search can be set as default ranking for search page; this replaces the old ranking alternatives.
· Better Crawl Monitoring
· After a crawl start was initialized, the Crawler Monitor is showed.
· The Crawl Monitor now shows all queue elements in one table.
· Monitoring of index size.
· The Crawl Profiles are showed; crawls can be interrupted within the profile table.
· A crawl may now distinguish between text indexing and media link indexing.
· Migration to new Database Structure
· The new Collection Database is now the only database structure that can be used; Assortments are switched off.
· Added functions to migrate Assortment databases and WORDS databases to Collection database.
· Removed all methods to write Assortment data structures.
· Migrated DHT position computation to base64-decoded values; this changes the DHT structure slightly and closes the gaps in the old DHT structure.