Martin Baldan wrote:
That said, I don't see why you have an issue with search engines and search services. Even on your own machine, searching files with complex properties is far from trivial. When outside, untrusted sources are involved, you need someone to tell you what is relevant, what is not, who is lying, and so on. Google got to dominate that niche for the right reasons, namely, being much better than the competition.
I wasn't clear. Actually, I didn't want to state my opinion. I can't find the message, but I (incorrectly?) remembered Alan saying that one-way links basically created the need for big search engines. As I couldn't imagine an architecture that could do away with centralized search engines, I wanted to ask about it. That said, I do have issues with Big Data search engines: they are centralized. That alone gives them more power than I'd like them to have. If we could remove the centralization while keeping the good stuff (namely, finding things), that would be really cool. Loup. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
