Overview
What is YaCy?
YaCy : A peer-to-peer software created for web search
In depth
A closer look at YaCy
YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of web pages. YaCy offers you the possibility to integrate it as portal for your webpage using a source code. Imagine if, rather than relying on the proprietary software of a large professional search engine operator, your search engine was run by many private computers which aren't under the control of any one company or individual. Well, that's what YaCy does! It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index. We want to achieve freedom of information through a free, distributed web search which is powered by the world's users.
Verdict
Should you download YaCy?
YaCy runs on
Windows 9X/ME/2K/XP/2003/Windows 10/11
and is available under the
GNU Public License
license
— the installer is 38.6 MB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Web Site Traffic.
✓
Verified clean. Every YaCy build on SoftLookup is scanned for viruses, spyware, adware, trojans and backdoors. We re-test on every update.
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At a glance
YaCy specifications
- Last updated
- May 11, 2025
- License
- GNU Public License
- Operating system
- Windows 9X/ME/2K/XP/2003/Windows 10/11
- File size
- 38.6 MB
- Price
- Free
- Page views
- 742
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