Dayofbirth.co.uk. DIY search engine takes on Google. 29 November 2011Last updated at 09:56 Users of YaCy are being encouraged to download and run the search software for themselves Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search sites have a new rival called YaCy. Backed by free software activists, YaCy aims to literally put search into the hands of users by distributing its indexing engine around the net. Anyone can download the YaCy software and help the search system improve and spread the load of queries. Its creators also hope YaCy will be much harder to censor than existing systems that pipe queries through centralised servers. Peer privacy The YaCy search page was opened to the public on 28 November and currently has about 600 participants or peers that share the load of queries and the task of indexing information.
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