AW: [p2p-hackers] Decentralized search engines

[Tschofenig, Hannes]

hi daniel, 

google is, in some sense, already using a decentralized solution. they are using more than 160.000 machines for scalability, cost and performance reasons. 

i wonder whether there is actually detailed information available how their system works. 

ciao
hannes


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: p2p-hackers-bounces at zgp.org 
> [mailto:p2p-hackers-bounces at zgp.org] Im Auftrag von Daniel Stutzbach
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. Dezember 2005 18:27
> An: Peer-to-peer development.
> Cc: strib at MIT.EDU; zooko at zooko.com
> Betreff: Re: [p2p-hackers] Decentralized search engines
> 
> 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?
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Stutzbach                           Computer Science 
> Ph.D Student
> http://www.barsoom.org/~agthorr                     
> University of Oregon
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