On 9/14/07, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.)
Perhaps a heirarchy would help? A bit like DNS. Your search term goes into a heirarchical system and is only sent to those boxen that have the relevant index. > This is known as Denial of Service once it saturates the connection. I can see that if you flood. > I've looked at this. A *lot*. Maybe you have not looked in the right place. Damned if I know but I have known some extremely intelligent people who spent huge amounts of time looking in the wrong places. BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
