Predrag Ivanovic on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:41:55 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> search engines on the move |
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:18:36 -0700 (PDT) Morlock Elloi wrote: <snip> > The solution is, naturally, a cooperative distributed P2P-based open source > search engine, without central server, where each user contributes to both > spidering and querying of the index. No single choke point. Unfortunately, > such engine does not exist. It is a multimillion development and maintenance > effort. Actually, there are a few beta/prototype projects: YaCy (http://yacy.net/index.html), Java based (so it is multiplatform), GPL licensed( so it is free). "YaCy consists mainly of four parts: a web crawler, an indexer, a built-in database engine and the p2p index exchange protocol, based on http. The YaCy search engine can be accessed through the built-in http server. All parts of this architecture are included in the YaCy distribution." Faroo (http://www.faroo.com/), currently in invite-only beta stage. OpenBusiness model is interesting[1]: "Users contributing to Infrastructure/Users using product for free Company sells Advertising/Company shares revenues" Revenue is shared based on number of queries users peers answer...or something. [1]http://www.faroo.com/english/technology/participation.html Pedja -- You don't eat children. You sell them into slavery, then use the money to buy endangered species and eat those. - Stuart the Nice # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@kein.org and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org