BenE mail@psychoferret.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
There's a thread on another list I'm on, with regards to the recent google stories on the register, about open source search engines. Has anyone had any experience of any? I notice theres a few about, but none I've heard of.
Can you point me to that thread please? This sounds interesting, but I can't find good material on it. A lot of the p2p search engine suggestions I've seen aren't really p2p at all, but client-server with clients sending back more information than normal.
Can it work? I don't know. Are we crossing into things like agent technology and semantic web, or are there simpler ways of doing this that haven't been considered yet? The vlib.org project is a sort of p2p yahoo, but doesn't really seem to get the interest any more.