On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:56:55PM +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote: > Omer Zak wrote:
>> Now Google is in the news, and "threatens" to engulf the entire world >> and become the next Microsoft. >> Just as Linux is competing with Microsoft and is checking its >> threat, it may be a good idea to have something, which competes >> with Google. IMO, just as with GNU/Linux it is not about mere competition, it is about freedom and working differently. There is at least one project I vaguely remember that had the aim of creating a WWW-scale search engine where everything possible is made in a distributed way with resources donated by users themselves (e.g. giving a few GB/month of bandwidth from their DSL lines), where the index is so distributed that nobody can "take it away" and limit access to it, etc. http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/ http://www.opensourcesearch.org/wiki/index.php/Newish_Search_and_Networking_Engines http://www.opensourcesearch.org/wiki/index.php/Relevant_Open_Source_Projects%2C_Code_and_Libraries http://search.minty.org/ http://www.openwebspider.org/ -- Lionel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
