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YaCy – Peer to Peer Search Engine
- dest 10y agoThe project is solid technically, but, IMHO, lacks performance compared to mainstream search engines, and suffers from very poor UX/design (too many knobs). A few years ago, I did setup a node at home to help the network but gave up a few months later, the computations/network crawls being too intensive.
- throwaway2016a 10y agoMaybe someone with some technical background on this project can answer... what is to keep someone from poisoning the results? For example, intentionally returning a result for a search term that is not accurate or even spamming results by returning irrelevant pages.
- dandelion_lover 10y agoNothing prevents you from showing your own results. You can promote your own website in your search. It is expected, though, that the majority of the nodes will not show malicious content.