have you heard of yacy?

[tacnet]

Cant say as Ive ever heard of Yacy but I guess if its a search engine bot then you want it to crawl your site

I noticed it says "The main purpose of YaCy is to aquire a lot of data from the web and make them searchable. Consequently, this uses a lot of disk space. ....... YaCy loves to use more RAM if available, give it more RAM and it performes better! "

Guess that means other people will be using your resources as its a peer to peer network.

Do you mean they access your computer or that others can access the computer?

Well it looks like a peer to peer network so yes you would create a database on your system that others could then access in the background. In other words people would be using your resources just as you would be using theirs

To be honest, i doubt its any good. The problem with peer to peer networks is it requires users to A - have their systems on and B - to have the app running in the background. That's besides any potential security risks

I cant see the point of it. Your only ever going to be able to find what others have previously crawled.

Why not just use google which has already crawled everything ?

Just my 2 cents

[24alex]

Cant say as Ive ever heard of Yacy but I guess if its a search engine bot then you want it to crawl your site

I noticed it says "The main purpose of YaCy is to aquire a lot of data from the web and make them searchable. Consequently, this uses a lot of disk space. ....... YaCy loves to use more RAM if available, give it more RAM and it performes better! "

Guess that means other people will be using your resources as its a peer to peer network.

Do you mean they access your computer or that others can access the computer?

Well it looks like a peer to peer network so yes you would create a database on your system that others could then access in the background. In other words people would be using your resources just as you would be using theirs

To be honest, i doubt its any good. The problem with peer to peer networks is it requires users to A - have their systems on and B - to have the app running in the background. That's besides any potential security risks

I cant see the point of it. Your only ever going to be able to find what others have previously crawled.

Why not just use google which has already crawled everything ?

Just my 2 cents

Very well put, first of all I will never let others access any database on my server or laptop, second Google it is all there.

Bye

[badkitty]

I'll pass not into this sharing crap

[bbwlover]

Cant say as Ive ever heard of Yacy but I guess if its a search engine bot then you want it to crawl your site

I noticed it says "The main purpose of YaCy is to aquire a lot of data from the web and make them searchable. Consequently, this uses a lot of disk space. ....... YaCy loves to use more RAM if available, give it more RAM and it performes better! "

Guess that means other people will be using your resources as its a peer to peer network.

Not sure I want that to happen

[chilli.domains]

Let me see if there is any money in this one

[GlennfromLA]

So none of you have any positive feedback on Yacy?

[Emil]

It seems weird to me not your traditional search engine