Encyclone (http://encyclone.org/) is a web application for crawling, indexing and searches of online encyclopedias. Search can be performed in more than 40 encyclopedias with different publication policies. English is the primary language of the included encyclopedias.
Encyclone is based on the YaCy project, a free distributed search engine implemented in Java. Encyclone is built on the principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) network to ensures a decentralization. The search index of Encyclone is shared by similar projects based on the YaCy software. Unlike the default YaCy setup, Encyclone does not import the search indexes via the P2P network from other clients to ensure the restrictive set of domains with knowledge content.
Encyclone is one of the projects of the Knowledge Standards Foundation (KSF). The Encyclone is affiliated with the Encyclosphere project of the Knowledge Standards Foundation (KSF) led by Larry Sanger.
Commercial search engines usually deal with diverse web resources but prioritize advertising content. The results of Encyclone are focused on encyclopedic content. The presented results of Encyclone are free from advertising. Unlike the other two projects by the KSF, Encycloreader and Encyclosearch, Encyclone does not accumulate articles in the ZWI file format. The task of the Encyclone is to crawl online encyclopedias, create a Lucene index files, and share such files with similar projects based on the YaCy software.
S.Chekanov (submitter)