[p2p-hackers] Decentralized search engines

[SIMON Gwendal RD-MAPS-ISS]

> from Daniel Stutzbach
> 
> 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?

Yes.

Crawler-based systems are not up-to-date. It is especially bad in the
current context of dynamic webpages : news, posts, comments...

Moreover, more contents can be indexed : my photos, my music...

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

Yes.

By the way, an organization can be sued and shutdown (eg. napster)

-- Gwendal




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