Free Software Activists Take On Google Search

alphadogg writes "Free software activists have released a peer-to-peer search engine to take on Google, Yahoo, Bing and others. The free, distributed search engine, YaCy, takes a new approach to search. Rather than using a central server, its search results come from a network of independent 'peers,' users who have downloaded the YaCy software. The aim is that no single entity gets to decide what gets listed, or in which order results appear. 'Most of what we do on the Internet involves search. It's the vital link between us and the information we're looking for. For such an essential function, we cannot rely on a few large companies and compromise our privacy in the process,' said Michael Christen, YaCy's project leader."

Great

[Moheeheeko]

Only used by neckbeards = all search results will be tentacle hentai and open source software websites.

Awesome...

Yahtzee

[pavon]

I assumed it was intended to be pronounced like Yahtzee, which is both memorable and quite descriptive of the quality of results you can expect.

Re:Well

[Rei]

Instead of insight, comment contained bobcat. Would not read again.
 

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Re:Come FLOSS Devs, We Need Better Names!

[raftpeople]

Other names they considered that were equally bad:
1) FreEble
2) !!_//[%%%
3) Bing
3) xkCQQT

Re:Java...

[TheInternetGuy]

That's OK, please join me in my efforts in porting this over to Flash.

Re:Ummm

[enoz]

Yahoo's search engine IS Bing.

And Bing's search engine is Google [slashdot.org].