[Freedombox-discuss] Leaving the (proprietary) cloud - my roadmap for FB

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 03:25:52PM +0200, bertagaz wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 02:01:01PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 12:54:34PM +0200, Arthur Lutz wrote:
>>> * google search -> yacy
>>
>> Please file RFP bugreport against WNPP for it.
>>
>> Also, beware that YaCy is Java-based, so heavy on the limited 
>> resources of an embedded device.
>>
>> Complex volunteer task: Write a C/C++/Erlang implementation of YaCy 
>> ;-)
>
>there is also the seeks project : http://www.seeks-project.info/site/ 
>"free and open P2P design and application for enabling social 
>websearch"

A closer look reveals that this isn't in the same league as YaCy:

True, the code is free and open, but it uses other search engines as 
basis - the P2P is a regrouping of search results from central engines.

YaCy, in comparison, really is a fully independent P2P database, as I 
understand it.

So Seeks is interesting to work against the populistic rating logic of 
Google, but is not a decentral design (just a decentral icing on top of 
classic central tools). :-(

Somewhat related to this: I recently switched from Google as search 
engine to DuckDuckGo.com, which is still a central service, but provides 
less hints for other services to track info about my online activities.


  - Jonas

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