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YaCy

European alternative to centralized search — peer-to-peer search engine software from Germany.

EuroMakers lists YaCy as a European search engine alternative made in Germany.

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Features

What YaCy offers

  • Peer-to-peer search
  • Self-hosted search nodes
  • Open-source codebase
  • Independent indexing
  • No central query log owner
  • Custom search portals

About

YaCy is a German open-source project for decentralized web search. Peers crawl and index the web together so no single company owns the search index.

Privacy advocates and researchers use YaCy to explore censorship-resistant search infrastructure built in Europe.

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