From 7fa218eb68ef323d95cd3c4f832682c74bcd8320 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: okybaca Date: Mon, 1 May 2023 17:05:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] faq: added section: what can i use yacy for? --- docs/faq.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/faq.md b/docs/faq.md index b28d31d..f0d88d1 100644 --- a/docs/faq.md +++ b/docs/faq.md @@ -8,6 +8,18 @@ ### 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.