Thanks, I was trying to remember that one. I think that for any new, non-profit, search engine to be viable, it has to be decentralized. deusu.com takes 2-3 months to crawl 2bn pages. Yacy claims to be at 1.4bn. I don't know how long it takes for that index to get refreshed, but it has 600 peer operators. Even if Yacy has a weaker indexing algorithm, I imagine that 600 peers, each crawling and contributing their own set of sites must be faster than a single deusu node.
Yacy is also quite a bit more resilient.
I will say that I don't buy Yacy's "no censoring" statement. If I was a bad actor, I could run yacy on a computer with false dns and false certificates, and yacy could index my fake content with official looking URLs.
Yacy is also quite a bit more resilient.
I will say that I don't buy Yacy's "no censoring" statement. If I was a bad actor, I could run yacy on a computer with false dns and false certificates, and yacy could index my fake content with official looking URLs.