YaCy – The Peer to Peer Search Engine

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This project has been around for years (created in 2003 according to wikipedia). In fact I submitted it 3 years ago. [0]

It's awesome but not Show HN (unless you made it)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8746883

Exactly. Also it's not so easy to find out about recent developments of the Yacy Project. From Twitter I found something called "Yacy Grid", "second generation implementation". It's a microservices implementation of the original Yacy it seems -> https://github.com/yacy/yacy_grid_mcp

Hey, this is actually pretty cool! I have some questions.

On this page [1] there is mention of documents being stored locally. How much memory does this take up on the user's machine? What about pruning of old documents?

I'm aware that you're not targeting the smartphone space as of yet (I can't see any downloads for Android and iOS), but as the majority of searches do come from a smartphone, I'm wondering if YaCy is planning on moving into that space? If so, those previous questions about storage and pruning are very much relevant.

[1]: https://yacy.net/en/Technology.html

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