%A Josep M Pujol %A Pablo Rodriguez %T Towards Distributed Social Search Engines %X We describe a distributed social search engine build upon open-source tools aiming to help the community to {\em take back the Search}. Access to the Web is universal and open, and so the mechanisms to search should be. We envision search as a basic service whose operation is controlled and maintained by the community itself. To that end we present an alpha version of what could become the platform of a distributed search engine fueled by the shared resources and collaboration of the community. %C Madrid, Spain %D 2009 %L www2009242