[p2p-hackers] Paradigma Question: DHT's or Small World?

[Eric M. Hopper]

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 14:43 +0100, Alexander Löser wrote:
> However, if the document contains any valuable meta data, the system should
> consider this information as well.  I think of documents classified by an
> enterprise wide topic hierarchy or research docs classified within the ACM
> topic hierarchy or the documents within the google/dmoz project. Or possible
> doctors that exchange documents classified within a medical taxonomy.
> 
> Please correct me, if my assumptions are wrong.

Well, one thing any search system has to deal with is being gamed.
Meta-data is too easy to game.  It's data for the computer, not for
people, so it can be used to trick computers into giving people
information they're not actually interested in.

Computers, as much as possible, have to base their searching on what
people will actually look at.

Now, your idea of trying to automatically get people with similar
interests to group together might provide a way for computers to take
advantage of knowledge of those relationships to let people sort of vet
documents for one another.  And that could be an interesting approach.
I think one of the primary problems there is the same one google has to
deal with.  Party crashers.  People who try to become part of a
community largely in order to sow disinformation, usually for commercial
gain.

Have fun (if at all possible),
-- 
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they
be properly armed.  -- Alexander Hamilton
-- Eric Hopper (hopper at omnifarious.org  http://www.omnifarious.org/~hopper) --
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