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### What is this?
YaCy is a distributed Web Search Engine, based on a peer-to-peer network.

### What can I use YaCy for?
Use cases range from:

* site search for your own website (may be shared with the p2p network or isolated),
* narrow-domain specialised search engine (e. g. gene-manipulation scientific magazines, sites about trains, computer security, encyclopedias, german law, language-domain...) with the advantage of crawling all the pages (not selective, as other search engines do),
* whole-world alternative search engine, using the P2P (RWI), sharing crawled index with other peers and taking advantage of indices of the others, bypassing the censorship of local laws,
* intranet search behind the firewall, not sharing the data with any 3rd party,
* personal web search used as a cache, indexing whatever you're browsing (limited by https now),
* news retrieval tool with user-defined recrawl time,
* experimental project (such as onion web search), connected with other software via [API](https://wiki.yacy.net/index.php/Dev:API),
* to research in a field of decentralised search engines.

### What does indexing mean?
Indexing means that a web page is separated into the single words on it and to save the URLs to the sites containing them under a reference to the word itself in a database. So searching for a word (or many words) may be easily performed by fetching all URLs "belonging" to the search term.

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