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Here's a few selected articles, would somebody have the time to incorporate them?

• http://www.forbes.com/sites/marketshare/2011/11/30/a-new-movement-against-google-bing-and-yahoo-search/
• http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,800925,00.html
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15935550
• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8923280/YaCy-asks-web-users-to-be-their-own-Google.html
• http://www.cio.com/article/695181/Free_Software_Activists_to_Take_on_Google_with_New_Free_Search_Engine
• http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Version-1-0-of-YaCy-distributed-search-engine-released-1386447.html
• http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397258,00.asp
• http://www.itworld.com/software/228393/free-software-activists-take-google-new-free-search-engine

Palosirkka ( talk) 11:06, 16 April 2012 (UTC) reply

This article includes several spam references. References section should be carefully verified. 84.145.246.50 ( talk) 08:16, 28 February 2016 (UTC) reply

Especially check the revisions from 698009890 (12:06, 3 January 2016‎) to now. Compare with http://yacy.net/en/Applications.html and http://yacy.net/en/, check for copyright violations. Looks like “ Himanshu Sekhar Nayak” and “ Mfmsajidh” (maybe others) are evil bots. Checking the IP address ranges of recent commits might be revealing. 84.145.246.50 ( talk) 08:42, 28 February 2016 (UTC) reply

I deleted all such spam references with revisions [1] and [2]. I ensured everything was spam. I used archive.org to verify an unreachable spam page. Medende ( talk) 20:55, 8 March 2016 (UTC) reply

I undid revision 723086076 by 143.159.115.13 as it deleted a major lead section explaining the current non-functional status of YaCy's ranking code, which I think is of paramount importance in relation to a search engine and hence should stay in the lead section. Medende ( talk) 10:24, 1 June 2016 (UTC) reply