Open source LAN-local search

article #1189, updated 2374 days ago

There are several tools fitting this general description, but this writer has only found one turnkey installable. This is Yacy:

yacy.net

Very fast, quite straightforward to set up and configure (though you’ll learn a thing or two if you’ve never thought about search very much!), almost not at all counterintuitive. It can be easily set up as either a LAN-local search server or part of its distributed WWW network.

There is a runner up, Open Search Server:

www.opensearchserver.com

If its documentation were remotely adequate, it might be comparable, but sadly, not.

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