Re: [Trisquel-users] Peer-2-peer free software web search (YaCy) goes 1.0

[tegskywalker]

I'm starting to get deja-vu when reading this because I think someone may or  
may not have tried this like 5+ years ago with the P2P search engine. I'm  
assuming that it is a tech like BitTorrent that stores a "seed" on your hard  
drive and shares it with others and grows as you add more data to it.

To be honest though, this would be much better if it didn't rely on an  
install and was purely in the web browser. I say this so users of any  
platform can take advantage of it as long as they have a modern web browser  
(doesn't IE8 support local storage?) and not install anything. Of course if  
they clear their cookies and/or local storage, then the data is gone unless  
it becomes centralized syncing with a server.