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   sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 00:50:29 JST sj_zero
   From where I'm standing, everyone on Earth should be running a yacy node. It isn't perfect or even great, but it's the only truly free search option, and it only gets better the more people use it.
   
   There are presently 8 times more people seeding a single torrent of the Minecraft movie than were running yacy nodes at any point in the past month. If people really care about the danger Google poses, they ought to be participating in a solution. Even with its flaws, if there were to be a sudden boom in the use of the software, that alone could end up encouraging individuals and organizations to put more resources into it.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 00:51:19 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @sj_zero Unfamiliar but boosting since I trust you if you're saying it's useful. Can you give a QRD?
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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 01:24:30 JST sj_zero

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     • BowserNoodle ☦️
     Yacy is an open source distributed search engine. Basically, you can have it crawl whichever websites you want, or you can even send it up as a transparent proxy so that it knows which websites you've gone to and it will crawl any websites you've ever been to, and it hooks up with everyone else running the software so when you run a search, you end up searching all of the things in your index, as well as all the things that everyone elses index. Kind of like bittorrent, it also has each node on the system pass around different chunks of data to each other, so there's lots of different copies of different pieces of the index everywhere.
     
     I've got a copy set up at https://yacy.fbxl.net
     
     You don't even necessarily have to use it exclusively, because it can hook into a searx instance so yacy results are just one piece of the total results. That's how I've got my search.fbxl.net set up, it looks at a bunch of different websites, and yacy is just one of them.