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README for YaCy (C) by Michael Peter Christen; mc@yacy.net
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Please visit www.yacy.net for latest changes or new documentation.
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Please visit http://yacy.net for latest changes or new documentation.
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YaCy comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY!
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This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
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under certain conditions; see file gpl.txt for details.
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@ -8,36 +8,43 @@ under certain conditions; see file gpl.txt for details.
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WHAT IS THIS?
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This is a Open Source Web Search Engine.
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It can use a Peer-to-Peer protocol to create a distributed search engine
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without a search central.
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You can also use this software to set up your own search portal, for your
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intranet or the internet.
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WHAT CAN I DO WITH THIS SOFTWARE?
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YaCy is a search engine for the Web (supporting also ftp).
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It is neither a search portal nor a portal software but a peer-to-peer
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software that works on principles similar to file sharing.
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The difference is that you do not share any kind of data but web indexes.
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YaCy also generates the indexes it organizes. YaCy is a web crawler for
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everybody, without censorship and central data retention:
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- search the web (automatically using all other YaCy peers)
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- crawl the web (and you contribute to the global web index)
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- co-operative crawling; support for other crawlers
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- intranet indexing and search
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- set up your own search portal
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- use it as your personal web server
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- use it as your web proxy (..and visited pages are indexed)
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- ensure your privacy when browsing and searching the web
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- many more
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- all users have equal rights
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- comprehensive concept to anonymise the users' index
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To be able to perform a search using the YaCy network, every user has to
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set up their own node. More users are leading to higher index capacity
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and better distributed indexing performance.
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WHERE IS THE DOCUMENTATION?
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The complete documentation can be found at:
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(English) http://yacy.net/
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(Wiki:de) http://www.yacy-websuche.de/wiki/index.php/De:Start
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(Wiki:en) http://www.yacy-websearch.net/wiki/index.php/En:Start
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Documentation can be found at:
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(Home Page) http://yacy.net/
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(German Forum) http://forum.yacy.de/
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(Wiki:de) http://www.yacy-websuche.de/wiki/index.php/De:Start
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(Wiki:en) http://www.yacy-websearch.net/wiki/index.php/En:Start
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Every of these locations has a (YaCy) search functionality which combines
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all these locations into one search result.
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DEPENDENCIES? WHAT OTHER SOFTWARE DO I NEED?
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You need java 1.5 or later to run YaCy.
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Please download it from http://java.sun.com
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Please download it from http://www.java.com
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YaCy also runs on IcedTea6.
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See http://icedtea.classpath.org
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NO OTHER SOFTWARE IS REQUIRED!
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(you don't need apache, tomcat or mysql or whatever)
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@ -75,7 +82,8 @@ ANY MORE CONFIGURATIONS?
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just open http://localhost:8080
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all you have to do (should do) is to enter a password for your peer
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- You can use YaCy as your web proxy. This is an option, you don't need to do that.
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- You can use YaCy as your web proxy.
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This is an option, you don't need to do that.
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Simply configure your internet connection to use a proxy at port 8080.
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@ -92,5 +100,5 @@ feel free to ask the author for a business proposal to customize YaCy
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according to your needs. We also provide integration solutions if the
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software is about to be integrated into your enterprise application.
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Germany, Frankfurt a.M., 14.01.2009
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Germany, Frankfurt a.M., 05.11.2010
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Michael Peter Christen
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orbiter
14 years ago