Hey, even the biggest Finnish tech newssite/magazine wrote about it:
http://www.tietokone.fi/uutiset/yacy_jokamiehen_hakukone_haastaa_googlen
We didn't translate the PR, so I guess your current international
distribution network works quite well and the topic is interesting :)
2011/11/30 Karsten Gerloff <gerloff(a)fsfeurope.org>:
> Hi,
>
> it's been an exciting couple of days.
>
> Monday's YaCy PR went off like a rocket. We got lots of coverage,
> Alessandro has a collection of links over here:
>
> http://blogs.fsfe.org/alessandro.polvani/
>
> The high-water mark in terms of coverage so far is probably the
> Wall Street Journal's tech blog:
>
> http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/11/30/new-open-source-search-not-a-go…
>
> Which is actually a rather good article, as it dampens some of the
> excitement over YaCy as a "Google killer".
>
> The WSJ article is based on an article by Web Pro News
>
> http://www.webpronews.com/follow-up-gerloff-chimes-in-on-yacy-2011-11
>
> which mainly consists of a mail I sent to one of their writers
> yesterday evening.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Karsten
>
>
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