[p2p-hackers] Decentralized search engines

[coderman]

On 12/7/05, Tschofenig, Hannes <hannes.tschofenig at siemens.com> wrote:
> ...
> google is, in some sense, already using a decentralized solution. they are using more than 160.000 machines for scalability, cost and performance reasons.

distributed != decentralized.

googlefs and map reduce papers describe some of their internals.
(regarding how it works)
http://labs.google.com/papers/index.html