YaCy P2P Own Search Engine compared with Google Search, Bing and DuckDuckGo| YaCy P2P 自有搜索引擎 | Google Search | 宾 | DuckDuckGo |
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| Deployment and scope: Runs on the own computer, in a VM, in a Docker container or on Heroku, and needs Java 1.8 or later. It can join the public peer-to-peer network, serve a personal portal, or index an intranet with a scanner for HTTP, FTP and SMB servers. | | | |
| 程序化访问: Built-in APIs over HTTP with XML and JSON output, so the index of the own node can be queried from other applications. | 程序化访问: The Custom Search JSON API is closed to new customers, and existing customers have until 1 January 2027 to move. Google points to Vertex AI Search for searching up to 50 domains. | 程序化访问: The Bing Search APIs were retired on 11 August 2025. Microsoft recommends Grounding with Bing Search in Azure AI Agents, which feeds web data to LLM agents. | |
| 隐私 Search terms are hashed before they are sent to the peer network, and the software runs on hardware controlled by the user. | | | 隐私 The help page states that DuckDuckGo Search never tracks you, and that the connection is encrypted so an internet provider cannot see the searches. |
| 许可证和费用: Open source under GPL 2.0 or later, with some parts under the LGPL, and no licence fee. | 许可证和费用: The Custom Search JSON API offered a free daily quota of 100 queries, with further queries billed through a billing account. | 许可证和费用: The former API is retired, so there is no current Bing Search API tariff to compare. | |