> 
> Sorry for the overloading of "node" there... but it turns out to be
> appropriate. A search through freenet would be a search through one huge 
> B+tree. (Well not really a tree, since there's the possibility of loops...
> but if you avoid those by using unique request numbers, it acts like a tree.) 
> Sorry if this is obvious and I've only just become enlightened.  :)
The metaphor is a close one, but not quite exact.  Freenet searches are
depth first hill-climbing searches, a B+ tree *could* be adapted in this
manner, but you'd have to have upward references so you could backtrack.

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