Since it's bittorrent-based, can anyone help seed some fragments? Is there any simple way for a layman to offer system resources without much technical expertise? My understanding is it's very hard to compete with big tech at running a search engine because of the vast amount of storage space and processing power needed 

 If you just want to share websites you like on a certain topic, you can get a VPS for $10 with 100G and run yacy in 1 command.  If you run it locally on your computer, that works too, but you'd have to be online to share it.  It's an easy setup, with 1 command of pre-req, and 1 to run it.