Welcome to the Official BeeSeek Wiki!
BeeSeek is a project to build a free, open-source search engine based on a peer to peer technology.
The idea that move BeeSeek is to develop a search engine:
- whose source code is freely accessible to everyone;
- that gives warranties about individual's privacy;
- whose revenues are used for ethical projects;
- who share the processing work among the clients (peers) of the network;
- that doesn't store personal user data for long times and no more than needed.
If you are interested in a summary of technical details about how BeeSeek works, read the HowItWorks page.
A FAQ page is also available to give answers to the most common questions regarding BeeSeek. If what you are looking for is not there, please feel free to contact us at info@beeseek.org.
The BeeSeek Community
This project is driven by a community composed by volunteers. It has a very simple structure: 5 teams that take care of everything. Each of them has a Leader that rules and coordinate it. As you can see on the Community page, everyone can help in BeeSeek, even if you don't have great computer skill.
Read the Community page to have full details about how this Community is composed.
Get involved!
If you like this project, and you share the ideas that move BeeSeek, why don't you help us in developing our search engine? We are always looking for good people willing to help us in writing code, debugging, updating wiki, blogging, drawing wonderful artworks, promoting our projects, writing good documentation.
If you think you can help us, join one (or more) of our Teams in Launchpad, subscribe the team(s) Mailing Lists, subscribe to the wiki (and write your personal wiki page, if you will) and have fun!
What are you waiting for? Join our community! 
How we work
BeeSeek gives many tools to Team Members for their work. They are listed in the Tools page.
The most important are:
our Mailing Lists;
IRC, both for work and for fun.
Also, coders and developers are probably interested in our Repository.
A ToDo list is available to check what's going on with BeeSeek.
Finally, when a Team Members needs a vacation, he can write a note on the Absences page, so that everyone knows who is available for works in progress.
Wiki HowTo
A Wiki is a collaborative site. Anyone can contribute and share ideas, projectes, knowledge.
Using a Wiki like this is very simple. You can even modify this wiki and increase its quality without subscribing, altough registering to the wiki is strongly advised.
Here you can find some interesting starting points:
WikiFAQ: A complete FAQ for this wiki
RecentChanges: see where people are currently working
WikiSandBox: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing
FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways
SyntaxReference: quick access to wiki syntax
SiteNavigation: get an overview over this site and what it contains
MoinMoin: Everything you need to know about a MoinMoin Wiki.
How to use this site
Edit any page by pressing Edit at the top or the bottom of the page (or double click everywhere in the page)
Create a link to another page with joined capitalized words (like WikiSandBox) or with ["quoted words in brackets"]
- Search for page titles or text within pages using the search box at the top of any page
See HelpForBeginners to get you going, HelpContents for all help pages.
To learn more about what a WikiWikiWeb is, read about WhyWikiWorks and the WikiNature.
This wiki is powered by MoinMoin.