On Saturday 16 August 2003 05:36, Jeremy Caleb Heffner wrote: > I have been reading the discussion about searching Freenet and I think > perhaps a different idea is possible (bear with me though, perhaps it would > be impossible or extremely difficult to implement). I think what keeps > Freenet out of the mainstream file-swapping/publishing genre is the > inability to conduct searches in the Google manner.
Note: _Google_ manner, not usual file sharing P2P manner. > Since we are talking about a distributed network, it doesn't really make > sense to me for there to be spiders in the typical sense that create large > index files. That seems unusable especially if you try to scale it to a > large size. I don't see why it is any less plausible than Google is. The only problem with this is that Freenet has high latency, so you would likely need a distributed approach to indexing. > What about this idea: > > - When individuals browse through Freenet, everything they see > passes through their node, as does everything that they are relaying. And this does you absolutely no good at all. The node itself doesn't know what passes through it. It knows the key that passes through, but it doesn't have the decryption key for that file, so it might as well be random noise. Certainly not something that will help you index things. > - We add a spider function to the node such that it creates a > local index of keywords, rankings, etc., of everything that passes through > it and their matching keys. The only thing you could do with this is index files that the user retrieves/inserts. This would be in direct contradiction of Freenet's design and goals. > This new message type would pass through the system much like current > messages, preserving anonymity. And since the index was of everything > viewing locally and relayed the node operator still maintains plausible > deniability. So you still end up with the index uploaded into Freenet. How is this an improvement on the standard index+insert method? Gordan _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
