Hello. I am a huge fan of yacy.net and its completely decentralized search engine. I am all for a free, open, uncensored, and decentralized internet which is why I think YaCy is so awesome. YaCy is a peer-to-peer search engine that is completely open source. YaCy is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The biggest peer-to-peer search engine as of now is faroo.com which has more than 2 million peers, but is not open source, and currently the peer software is only available for Windows. Every time I use YaCy, it only has at most a few hundred peers using it on the network at the time. Faroo’s searches using faroo.com are generally very good because millions of people are using it. Basically, I would like to know how to greatly improve YaCy by getting many more people to join. I want many more people to use and join Yacy to improve the search results. How can YaCy get thousands or even millions of users to join like Faroo? I think YaCy could theoretically compete well against the likes of Google and Yahoo if there were enough people using it. Just FYI, you can test YaCy before running the software at http://search.yacy.net/ to get sample searches, but running the software on your own gives better search results. Any and all ideas and advice is appreciated. I am not affiliated with YaCy, I just am a big open source and free software fan, and really want YaCy to take off.
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