Search · Germany (DE)
YaCy
Decentralized search engine.
The switch
Google Search→YaCyalso replaces Bing
About
YaCy is a free distributed search engine. It works by using a peer-to-peer network where each user runs a spider that crawls the web and adds the found pages to a shared index.
Why we recommend it
EU vs USA
YaCy vs Google Search
Side-by-side on jurisdiction, data residency, and the rules that decide who can actually read your data.
Criteria
🇪🇺 YaCy
🇺🇸 Google Search
Headquarters
Germany
Mountain View, USA
Jurisdiction
EU
USA
Data location
EU
Global
GDPR-native
Yes
No
CLOUD Act / FISA exposed
No
Yes
Ad tracking
No
Yes
End-to-end encryption
No
No
Open source
Yes
No
Ownership
—
Alphabet Inc.
Founded
2006
1998
Compare head-to-head
YaCy vs the US incumbents
See all European alternatives to Google Search and Bing.