Hi David,
> Freenet would be best served IMO by a handful of major engines, each based
> on different methods of spidering, indexing etc. Some spider-based, some
> based on keywords, some hand-edited, some automatic etc etc. What one
engine
> misses, another will find. We all serve the punters best by giving them a
> healthy choice.
That's a fair assumption.
Plus, within Freenet, there's the additional complication of network
unreliability. One search engine may have found content that another one
couldn't retrieve due to failed routing (unless you have costly distributed,
redundant verification).
> Stefan, there's no way I want to drive your or anyone else's portal out of
> usage. Keep going with Freegle.
OK, then no war, glad to hear that *g*.
Seriously now, I don't want to build or defend a "monopoly" in any way. I
was just a little bit surprised when your announcement of a Freenet search
engine very similar to Freegle came out of nowhere.
> > Do you plan to add in-Freenet searching?
>
> Sure do.
> This will involve distributing a local prog (binaries for windows,
modified
> ht://dig source distro for Linux), plus a freesite containing the latest
> Harpoon database. Include a prog which automatically downloads the search
> database periodically, and Bob's your uncle :)
Nice idea, I was planning to do that too, but didn't have the time yet...
> > And what about all the other nifty features that Freegle already
> > incorporates? (SCNR...)
>
> These are Freegle's claim to fame.
>
> Harpoon on the other hand features:
> 1) boolean search
Freegle has that too, thanks to Lucene. I forgot to add it to the search
guide.
> 2) only displays results for retrievable pages
All content on Freegle is verified. Some files may be quite old though
(should probably display the verification date).
> 3) excludes the millions of defunct single-file keys (all those goddam
KSKs,
> CHKs, SSKs etc, 95+% of which fail)
Yeah, a "freesite-only" filter is a nice idea. Freesites are the most
vibrant part of Freenet.
-Stefan
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