[p2p-hackers] Decentralized search engines

[David Barrett]

SIMON Gwendal RD-MAPS-ISS wrote:
> This
> information space does not initially contain the web. Our idea is to
> consider that the cache (or history) of the web browser should be, by
> default, included in the published set of documents.

I assume you have a good answer for this, but how will you prevent (for 
example) cached copies of Hotmail from ending up in your system?

Also, is there any way to correlate an actual web URL with content in 
your system?  For example, could you do a search in your system, it 
finds a cached webpage, and then offer a "(www)" link that points back 
to the original page?

Finally, is there any way to create a "private" subset of the network, 
so (for example) everyone in my company can use this to get quick access 
to everyone else's documents, but nobody outside my company can use it 
to get in?

Regardless, this looks fantastic.

If you're in a US-centric business frame of mind, you might consider 
using this to ensure Sarbanes-Oxley conformance.  Especially if it were 
scriptable -- have a series of "kill words" that should never appear in 
any document anywhere in a company (including a specific customer name, 
or a case number, or whatever).  Then have a server loop through the 
kill list every night and raise a red flag if it finds a document that 
shouldn't exist.

-david