I tried a couple of years ago, but it kept crashing after a day or two. Not sure if I set it up wrong or something? Currently running searx-ng, which I quite like.
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I've had more luck finally throwing docker on it and letting it sit on an excising yunohost.
Hi!
I've been selfhosting Yacy for some years, even tho I rarely use it (I'm mostly using Kagi these days).
But some tips:
- Set up something like this to your browser, this sends Yacy to crawl pages that you visit https://github.com/JeremyRand/YaCyIndexerGreasemonkey .
- Get familiar with blacklists and try to find some public ones to filter out bad sites and adult content.
- Tinker with Ranking & heuristics -> Solr boosts to get results that fit your use case more.
- And in general, tinker with all the settings you can find!
And not directly Yacy related, but you can use your own Yacy through Searxng as well, even in 'private'(non P2P) mode.
I haven't used yacy in a whole, but i had configured it to auto import and index links from linkding. I also imported my browser history to get started.
Never tried the p2p option though so not sure how well that worked. I was worried about indexing private sites on accident .
In general, to everyone who finds Yacy as an interesting project, just give it a try!
It's relatively light weight, and having millions of pages indexed does not take that much disk space, in my case: 3.5 million indexed pages is around 200 gigabytes only.
Yacy is far from perfect, and it's an ancient project. But it's still alive and kicking strong!
Neat, will try it out.
Has anyone written an android desktop search widget for it? A quick search only foumd one veeery old experimental project.
That would be cool. Closest I have is just a pinned link via Firefox.
You also could make it the default search engine in the settings menu. Also works on desktop.
I was just looking into this yesterday. I'd love to hear if it's worth the hassle. People seem to be 50/50 on its long-term usefulness, "just use _____!"