New Do It Yourself Search Engine

November 30, 2011 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on New Do It Yourself Search Engine

A new search engine plans to do battle with the giants, i.e. Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. YaCy plans to put the search into the hands of users by giving out its indexing engine around the Internet for free.

This interesting bit of information was found on Fellow Geek in their post, “Open  Source DIY Search Engine YaCy.” Yes, you read that correctly. Anyone can download the YaCy engine and help the  search engine get better and spread the number of queries.

YaCy will also be harder to censor than existing systems because they won’t  be routing queries through centralized servers before delivering them to users. The YaCy search page already has 600 volunteers processing queries and indexing  information.

This is interesting, but it seems like some machine assisted indexing might be in order?

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.