YaCy is free software for your own search engine.

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Web Search by the people, for the people: decentralized, all users are equal, no central, no search request storage, shared index.

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!

YaCy is both the name of a project and the name of a software. Our main 'product' (it's free-software) is the YaCy Search Server.

YaCy has a strong connection to privacy-aware tools. As such it does not collect personalized data. It also has no 'phoning-home' integrated. This web page does not use cookies. However, linked services may have cookies.

The brand 'YaCy' is owned in a private company. While the software YaCy is a non-profit, free software we also provide consulting for YaCy and search-related business topics. To run the non-profit YaCy project we heavily depend on community support either as contribution to our software and documentation or on donations. Please donate! For a contact please see Impressum

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