I’ll have a look at your blog. Thanks for the link, it pretty much illustrates my feelings towards yacy as well.

Honestly, I was the same. I tried to run it multiple times but the results where never good enough to make the switch. Just wanted to point out it’s existence to OP.

Did you ever stumble upon yacy? https://github.com/yacy The website seems down but the general direction of the project might be up your alley.