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Friday, December 09, 2011

YaCy, A Peer-to-Peer Search Engine: A Step in the Right Direction

Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives:
Following the release on Monday of YaCy 1.0, a free, peer-to-peer search engine, many in the media were quick to view it as a challenge to Google, Bing and the other big contenders in the search arena. Since then, however, Karsten Gerloff, president of the Free Software Foundation of Europe -- a key supporter -- has spoken out to make the point that that’s not the intent… The new search engine doesn’t necessarily aim to deliver results better or faster than Google and the big guys, Gerloff explains; rather, it’s a step in the direction of distributed systems through which no one entity serves as a gatekeeper for information.
h/t JimF!

1 comment:

jollyspaniard said...

I know you're not fond of it but Facebook is already serving this function to a large extent. A lot of people are using their network of friends to share links and find content. Google's share of search traffic is already declining.

Now if only we could get a p2p Facebook killer that would be something.