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Mojeek vs YaCy: catalog facts
Mojeek	YaCy
Free Free to search; an API is also offered.	Free Free and open source software.
Web	Web, Self-hosted
Own independent index rather than Google or Bing results No-tracking privacy policy	Decentralized peer-to-peer web index with no central operator Can run as a private crawler or intranet search portal
Smaller index than the major engines, so some queries return fewer results Closed source	Pre-compiled packages are not built regularly; compiling from source is recommended Peer-to-peer results are less complete than major web search engines
Web application	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: GPL-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Needs internet	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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