Bob La Quey wrote:
Well it does raise an intriquing question. Where do you
distribute search? I see no reason for search to be centralized.
The net was originally intended to be peer to peer. I see no
real reason that it is not improved by returning to those
roots.
I do. There is no good method other than "flood" to search p2p. (Who
has it? Dunno. Who is closer? Dunno.)
This is known as Denial of Service once it saturates the connection.
I've looked at this. A *lot*.
Even doing something as simple as hunting for a very specific hash is
*hard*. There are things like Kademlia, but that assumes that every
peer is willing to be an equal partner and has equal transmission costs
(this is *not* true).
Google relies on the fact that it can A) distribute the search but then
has B) fast backhaul to *aggregate* the results.
A) is probably conceivable on the Internet. B) most certainly is not.
-a
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