[liberationtech] Thought experiment for Independence Day...

Tue Jul 8 10:53:40 PDT 2014

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On 07/04/2014 08:09 AM, Doug Schuler wrote:

> How easy would it be to develop a ?Public Google? that was 
> distributed across tens of thousands of computers similar to the 
> way that the SETI at home project uses the cycles of computers all 
> over the world?

YaCY (http://yacy.net/) does a pretty good job of that, in my
observation.  I've been running a node for a couple of years to
contribute to the network.  It seems to run slightly better on Windows
but does well on a Linux box.

One drawback that I've observed is that there aren't very many
publically accessible YaCy nodes out there.  It isn't (yet) as if you
can plug yacy.example.com into your browser (or your provider's
frontpage) and run searches.  The perception, thus, is that one must
run their own YaCy node to search via the YaCy network, and not many
people seem willing to do that just to search for stuff on the Web
every day.

A fixable problem, to be sure.

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