[freenet-dev] freenet (pre-)searchengine

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I have been playing with this idea a long time, and while I would have liked to give it a try myself, with the current filter of freenet, I think it's better left to someone else (the creator of TFE, for instance) - maybe he can create a 'thnks to' footnote ;-).   Anyway, what I was thinking was, that there are _javascript_s (and probably other stuff as well :-) that can emulate a searchengine. The database is stored as part of the _javascript_ on a webpage, thus, and is readily (and very fast) at showing the index of the links (of the word(s) that were requested).   This is not ideal, ofcourse, but it would be an improvement to the current system.   Once again, I've told my idea on IIRC, and it was met rather positively, but with the remarks (which had occured to me also ;-):   It still needs someone to insert/retrieve the database.   Wich is true, but that could be said of the current TFE system too. Besides, it can't be that difficult to largely automate the process.   The advantages are legio:   1)a real search-like mechanism 2)more user friendly 3)no more scrolling and manually searching for stuff (TFE is beginning to become TOO large to easely navigate through) 4)the moral issue is greately reduced; because (links to) 'illegal' things such as copyrighted material (or worse) would only be visible when you actively seek/request it   It would require, however, that at least for this particular script (or for some particular page), the java-script filter would have to let it pass without much fuzz.   Not ideal, perhaps, but untill a true good-working, scalable, anonymous searchengine is created to work in freenet, it would beat everything that is currently available on freenet.   Comments?