[p2p-hackers] Decentralized search engines

Daniel Stutzbach agthorr at cs.uoregon.edu
Wed Dec 7 17:27:26 UTC 2005


On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 05:18:46PM +0100, Ludovic Court?s wrote:
> Similarly, are there people working on decentralized web indexing and
> search engines?  To paraphrase Zooko, it would be nice to decentralize
> Google before it is too late...

For what purpose do you want to "decentralize Google"?

Is it for some technical reason where you believe a decentralized
index will provide better end-user performance?

Or is it because you don't think any single organization should have
that much control over information?

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Daniel Stutzbach                           Computer Science Ph.D Student
http://www.barsoom.org/~agthorr                     University of Oregon



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