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Sosse vs YaCy: catalog facts
SosseYaCy
Free

Open source under the AGPL-3.0 license.

Free

Free and open source software.

Web, Self-hosted, Command line Web, Self-hosted
  • Searches crawled and archived pages
  • Supports offline browsing of saved pages
  • Decentralized peer-to-peer web index with no central operator
  • Can run as a private crawler or intranet search portal
  • Requires self-hosting
  • Pre-compiled packages are not built regularly; compiling from source is recommended
  • Peer-to-peer results are less complete than major web search engines
Downloadable app, Web application, Self-hosted Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source Open source
License: AGPL-3.0 License: GPL-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed No account needed
Works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked October 8, 2026

Checked October 2, 2026

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