Forget Google Search: I found a search tool that doesn't track me or push AI - and it gets better

YaCy is fully private and can be installed on Linux, Mac, and Windows PCs. Here's my experience so far, and how to use it yourself.

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ZDNET key takeaways

• If you want to abandon Google, you can install your own search engine.
• YaCy is a free, decentralized search engine that can be installed locally.
• YaCy can be installed on Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

When you run a search via google.com, that search not only goes through the Google servers, but it also places AI answers front and center. That centralized service means Google is in complete control of your searches.

What if you could instead use a decentralized server that runs across many devices, each of which is private and not under the control of a single organization? That's YaCy.

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