Advantages
- As there is no central server, the results cannot be censored, and the reliability is (at least theoretically) higher.
- Because the engine is not owned by a company, there is no centralized advertising.
- Because of the design of YaCy, it can be used to index the ‘hidden web’, including Tor, I2P or Freenet.
- It is possible to achieve a high degree of privacy.
- The YaCy protocol uses HTTP requests, which preserves transparency and discoverability, while aiding diagnosis and investigation. Performance can be increased to near that of binary-only protocols (like TCP & UDP, see Disadvantages section), with the use of compression, such as gzip.
- Built-in support for OpenSearch
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