I don't actually use it currently...I had it running for a while but the "server" (decommissioned laptop) it was running on didn't seem to have enough horsepower. I'll be spinning up a new one eventually, but until then I'm on DuckDuckGo. Not in too much of a hurry as the YaCy results kinda sucked last time, but I block so much stuff that the DDG results kinda suck too...sometimes it takes five or six tries to get one unblocked result. Sometimes worse -- their video search seems to only search YouTube for example, which means it's useless. I'm thinking if I can import my Firefox history as the starting point for YaCy it might actually give better results for common queries (ie when I might as well just search the PHP man page or arch wiki directly, but a search engine gets me there faster.)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RamiK on Monday August 21 2017, @10:44PM (2 children)
http://yacy.net [yacy.net]
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by urza9814 on Tuesday August 22 2017, @04:21PM
Yes! I was going to ask the same! :)
I don't actually use it currently...I had it running for a while but the "server" (decommissioned laptop) it was running on didn't seem to have enough horsepower. I'll be spinning up a new one eventually, but until then I'm on DuckDuckGo. Not in too much of a hurry as the YaCy results kinda sucked last time, but I block so much stuff that the DDG results kinda suck too...sometimes it takes five or six tries to get one unblocked result. Sometimes worse -- their video search seems to only search YouTube for example, which means it's useless. I'm thinking if I can import my Firefox history as the starting point for YaCy it might actually give better results for common queries (ie when I might as well just search the PHP man page or arch wiki directly, but a search engine gets me there faster.)
(Score: 3, Informative) by tekk on Saturday August 26 2017, @01:54PM
I tried yacy on an off a few times over the years, I was never able to find a single relevant result whenever I searched.