README for YaCy (C) by Michael Peter Christen; mc@anomic.de

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Please visit www.yacy.net for latest changes or new documentation.

YaCy comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY!

This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it

under certain conditions; see file gpl.txt for details.

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This is a P2P-based Web Search Engine

and also a http/https proxy.



The complete documentation can be found inside the 'doc' subdirectory

in this release. Start browsing the manual by opening the index.html

file with your web browser.



YOU NEED JAVA 1.4.2 OR LATER TO RUN THIS APPLICATION!

PLEASE DOWNLOAD JAVA FROM http://java.sun.com



Startup of YaCy:



- on Linux        : start startYACY.sh

- on Windows      : double-click startYACY.bat

- on Mac OS X     : double-click startYACY.command (alias possible!)

- on any other OS : set your classpath to the 'classes' folder

                    and execute yacy.class, while your current system

                    path must target the release directory to access the

                    configuration files.



Then start using YaCy with the applications on-line interface:

browse to http://localhost:8080 where you can see your personal

search, configuration and administration interface.



If you want to use the proxy, simply configure your internet connection

to use YaCy at port 8080. You can also change the default proxy port.



If you like to use YaCy not as proxy but only as distributed

crawling/search engine, you can do so.

Start crawling at the 'Index Creation' menu point.



If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the author:

Send an email to Michael Christen (mc@anomic.de) with a meaningful subject

including the word 'yacy' to prevent that your email gets stuck

in my anti-spam filter.



If you like to have a customized version for special needs,

feel free to ask the author for a business proposal to customize YaCy

according to your needs. We also provide integration solutions if the

software is about to be integrated into your enterprise application.



Germany, Frankfurt a.M., 03.05.2005

Michael Peter Christen