diff --git a/source/de/anomic/search/QueryParams.java b/source/de/anomic/search/QueryParams.java
index 8279d1fb2..3badac9d8 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/search/QueryParams.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/search/QueryParams.java
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ public final class QueryParams {
         if ((querystring != null) && (querystring.length() > 0)) {
         
             // convert Umlaute
-            querystring = AbstractScraper.stripAll(querystring).toLowerCase().trim();
+            querystring = AbstractScraper.stripAll(querystring.toCharArray()).toLowerCase().trim();
             int c;
             for (int i = 0; i < seps.length(); i++) {
                 while ((c = querystring.indexOf(seps.charAt(i))) >= 0) {
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/search/TextSnippet.java b/source/de/anomic/search/TextSnippet.java
index 0d18d458a..7827da6af 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/search/TextSnippet.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/search/TextSnippet.java
@@ -155,7 +155,8 @@ public class TextSnippet implements Comparable<TextSnippet>, Comparator<TextSnip
         try {
             // first try to get the snippet from metadata
             String loc;
-            boolean objectWasInCache = de.anomic.http.client.Cache.has(url);
+            boolean noCacheUsage = url.isFile() || url.isSMB();
+            boolean objectWasInCache = (noCacheUsage) ? false : de.anomic.http.client.Cache.has(url);
             boolean useMetadata = !objectWasInCache && !cacheStrategy.mustBeOffline();
             if (useMetadata && containsAllHashes(loc = comp.dc_title(), queryhashes)) {
                 // try to create the snippet from information given in the url itself
@@ -175,7 +176,7 @@ public class TextSnippet implements Comparable<TextSnippet>, Comparator<TextSnip
                 return;
             } else {
                 // try to load the resource from the cache
-                response = loader.load(loader.request(url, true, reindexing), cacheStrategy, Long.MAX_VALUE);
+                response = loader.load(loader.request(url, true, reindexing), noCacheUsage ? CrawlProfile.CacheStrategy.NOCACHE : cacheStrategy, Long.MAX_VALUE);
                 if (response == null) {
                     // in case that we did not get any result we can still return a success when we are not allowed to go online
                     if (cacheStrategy.mustBeOffline()) {
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/cora/document/MultiProtocolURI.java b/source/net/yacy/cora/document/MultiProtocolURI.java
index d24a6dfc8..2f093f80e 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/cora/document/MultiProtocolURI.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/cora/document/MultiProtocolURI.java
@@ -787,7 +787,14 @@ public class MultiProtocolURI implements Serializable, Comparable<MultiProtocolU
         if (obj == null) return false;
         if (!(obj instanceof MultiProtocolURI)) return false;
         MultiProtocolURI other = (MultiProtocolURI) obj;
-        return this.toString().equals(other.toString());
+        
+        return
+          this.protocol.equals(other.protocol) && 
+          this.host.equals(other.host) && 
+          this.userInfo.equals(other.userInfo) && 
+          this.path.equals(other.path) && 
+          this.quest.equals(other.quest) && 
+          this.port == other.port; 
     }
 
     public int compareTo(MultiProtocolURI h) {
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/cora/protocol/Domains.java b/source/net/yacy/cora/protocol/Domains.java
index f88a5be88..d86c60701 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/cora/protocol/Domains.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/cora/protocol/Domains.java
@@ -679,6 +679,13 @@ public class Domains {
         // check dns lookup: may be a local address even if the domain name looks global
         if (!recursive) return false;
         InetAddress a = dnsResolve(host);
+        /*
+        if (a == null) {
+            // unknown if this is a local address. Could also be a timeout.
+            // It would be harmful to declare any public address as local, therefore return false
+            return false;
+        }
+        */
         return a == null || a.isAnyLocalAddress() || a.isLinkLocalAddress() || a.isLoopbackAddress() || a.isSiteLocalAddress() || isLocal(a.getHostAddress(), false);
     }
 }
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/cora/storage/ComparableARC.java b/source/net/yacy/cora/storage/ComparableARC.java
index 31d1aadf5..a21186f99 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/cora/storage/ComparableARC.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/cora/storage/ComparableARC.java
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ public final class ComparableARC<K, V> extends SimpleARC<K, V> implements Map<K,
             this.limit = cacheSize;
             this.keys = new LinkedList<K>();
         }
+        public synchronized V get(Object k) {
+            return super.get(k);
+        }
         public synchronized V put(K k, V v) {
             V r = super.put(k, v);
             if (r == null) keys.add(k);
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/cora/storage/HashARC.java b/source/net/yacy/cora/storage/HashARC.java
index aad33d4f6..0f9c88fda 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/cora/storage/HashARC.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/cora/storage/HashARC.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 package net.yacy.cora.storage;
 
+import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 
@@ -30,17 +31,17 @@ public final class HashARC<K, V> extends SimpleARC<K, V> implements Map<K, V>, I
     
     public HashARC(final int cacheSize) {
         this.cacheSize = cacheSize / 2;
-        super.levelA = new LinkedHashMap<K, V>(cacheSize, 0.1f, accessOrder) {
+        super.levelA = Collections.synchronizedMap(new LinkedHashMap<K, V>(cacheSize, 0.1f, accessOrder) {
             private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
             @Override protected boolean removeEldestEntry(final Map.Entry<K, V> eldest) {
                 return size() > HashARC.this.cacheSize;
             }
-        };
-        this.levelB = new LinkedHashMap<K, V>(cacheSize, 0.1f, accessOrder) {
+        });
+        this.levelB = Collections.synchronizedMap(new LinkedHashMap<K, V>(cacheSize, 0.1f, accessOrder) {
             private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
             @Override protected boolean removeEldestEntry(final Map.Entry<K, V> eldest) {
                 return size() > HashARC.this.cacheSize;
             }
-        };
+        });
     }
 }
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/cora/storage/SimpleARC.java b/source/net/yacy/cora/storage/SimpleARC.java
index 2f8fa3e19..58b9fa99f 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/cora/storage/SimpleARC.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/cora/storage/SimpleARC.java
@@ -85,10 +85,7 @@ abstract class SimpleARC<K, V> extends AbstractMap<K, V> implements Map<K, V>, I
      */
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
     public final V get(final Object s) {
-        V v;
-        synchronized (this.levelB) {
-            v = this.levelB.get(s);
-        }
+        V v = this.levelB.get(s);
         if (v != null) return v;
         synchronized (this) {
             v = this.levelA.remove(s);
@@ -127,12 +124,8 @@ abstract class SimpleARC<K, V> extends AbstractMap<K, V> implements Map<K, V>, I
      * @return
      */
     public final boolean containsKey(final Object s) {
-        synchronized (this.levelB) {
-            if (this.levelB.containsKey(s)) return true;
-        }
-        synchronized (this.levelA) {
-            return this.levelA.containsKey(s);
-        }
+        if (this.levelB.containsKey(s)) return true;
+        return this.levelA.containsKey(s);
     }
    
     
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/document/parser/html/AbstractScraper.java b/source/net/yacy/document/parser/html/AbstractScraper.java
index 05e811d07..cc55b0b6b 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/document/parser/html/AbstractScraper.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/document/parser/html/AbstractScraper.java
@@ -67,12 +67,12 @@ public abstract class AbstractScraper implements Scraper {
 
     public abstract void scrapeTag1(String tagname, Properties tagopts, char[] text);
 
-    protected static String stripAllTags(String s) {
-        StringBuilder r = new StringBuilder(s.length());
+    protected static String stripAllTags(final char[] s) {
+        StringBuilder r = new StringBuilder(s.length);
         int bc = 0;
         char c;
-        for (int p = 0; p < s.length(); p++) {
-            c = s.charAt(p);
+        for (int p = 0; p < s.length; p++) {
+            c = s[p];
             if (c == lb) {
                 bc++;
                 r.append(' ');
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractScraper implements Scraper {
         return r.toString().trim();
     }
 
-    public static String stripAll(String s) {
+    public static String stripAll(final char[] s) {
         return CharacterCoding.html2unicode(stripAllTags(s));
     }
 
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/document/parser/html/CharacterCoding.java b/source/net/yacy/document/parser/html/CharacterCoding.java
index 16d07493f..0f0bda721 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/document/parser/html/CharacterCoding.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/document/parser/html/CharacterCoding.java
@@ -240,14 +240,19 @@ public class CharacterCoding {
         Character r;
         while (p < text.length()) {
             p1 = text.indexOf('&', p);
-            if (p1 < 0) p1 = text.length();
-            sb.append(text.subSequence(p, p1));
+            if (p1 < 0) {
+                sb.append(text, p, text.length());
+                break;
+            }
+            sb.append(text, p, p1);
             p = p1;
             if (p >= text.length()) break;
             q = text.indexOf(';', p);
             if (q < 0) {
-                p++;
-                continue;
+                // if there is now no semicolon, then this will also fail when another ampersand is found afterwards
+                // we are finished here
+                sb.append(text, p, text.length());
+                break;
             }
             s = text.substring(p, q + 1);
             p = q + 1;
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/document/parser/html/ContentScraper.java b/source/net/yacy/document/parser/html/ContentScraper.java
index d3012e342..ce9cd9556 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/document/parser/html/ContentScraper.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/document/parser/html/ContentScraper.java
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ public class ContentScraper extends AbstractScraper implements Scraper {
     
     public void scrapeText(final char[] newtext, final String insideTag) {
         // System.out.println("SCRAPE: " + new String(newtext));
-        String b = cleanLine(super.stripAll(new String(newtext)));
+        String b = cleanLine(super.stripAll(newtext));
         if ((insideTag != null) && (!(insideTag.equals("a")))) {
             // texts inside tags sometimes have no punctuation at the line end
             // this is bad for the text sematics, because it is not possible for the
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ public class ContentScraper extends AbstractScraper implements Scraper {
     }
 
     private String recursiveParse(char[] inlineHtml) {
-        if (inlineHtml.length < 14) return cleanLine(super.stripAll(new String(inlineHtml)));
+        if (inlineHtml.length < 14) return cleanLine(super.stripAll(inlineHtml));
         
         // start a new scraper to parse links inside this text
         // parsing the content
@@ -276,12 +276,12 @@ public class ContentScraper extends AbstractScraper implements Scraper {
             writer.close();
         } catch (IOException e) {
             Log.logException(e);
-            return cleanLine(super.stripAll(new String(inlineHtml)));
+            return cleanLine(super.stripAll(inlineHtml));
         }
         this.anchors.putAll(scraper.getAnchors());
         this.images.putAll(scraper.images);
         
-        return cleanLine(super.stripAll(new String(scraper.content.getChars())));
+        return cleanLine(super.stripAll(scraper.content.getChars()));
     }
     
     private final static String cleanLine(String s) {