[p2p-hackers] Decentralized search engines

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Daniel Stutzbach <agthorr at cs.uoregon.edu> writes:

> 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?

Essentially for this reason.  Because search engines have become "entry
points" to the Internet.  Typically, people tend to no longer use
bookmarks and the likes: Google can always find the data they're looking
for.  Therefore, I think it's a reasonable goal to try to remove that
single point of trust/failure.

Thanks,
Ludovic.