@tom I ran !Yacy on a laptop and two VPSes. I gave it a full 1GiB of RAM in the settings. #Yacy paralyzed its #VPS during its weekly crawl. See http://url.federati.net/Tdeio ... on the other hand, other search tools (e.g., #Seeks, #Searx) mostly rely on #corpocentric search engines for their results, so their usefulness is dependent on the big engines' sufferance.