YaCy
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5recommend
2warn against
Jan 23, 2026first mention
Sep 12, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“https://yacy.net/”
“There's public instances but you can self-host it as well.”
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“In theory if you run YaCy kiwix is not necessary”
“If you do this, it becomes very stable.”
“solutions like hister and yacy that is so privacy conscious”
Caveats and dissent
“but it takes ages to crawl the open web (and lots of storage)”
“I didn't get useful results wheb I tested it though.”
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“YaCy kind of slowly stream results for about 30 seconds”
Often compared with
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All comments 11
“but it takes ages to crawl the open web (and lots of storage)”
“https://yacy.net/”
“There's public instances but you can self-host it as well.”
“I didn't get useful results wheb I tested it though.”
“I thought I'd tried Yacy, but apparently not - it's a distributed search.”
“In theory if you run YaCy kiwix is not necessary”
“If you do this, it becomes very stable.”
“YaCy kind of slowly stream results for about 30 seconds”
“solutions like hister and yacy that is so privacy conscious”
“Search: Self-hosted SearXNG + YACY (since ~10 years / good setup & documentation)”
“I consider the idea of YaCy kind of interesting”