Sounds like Grub (grub.org), now owned by Looksmart. Their code is open source (SourceForge).
Otis ---- On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Brice Tsakam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > <html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE>Hello,</DIV> > <DIV class=RTE>I am new to the nutch project. Actually, I have been looking for an open source search > engine project to propose the introduction of an optimization method for the database update.</DIV> > <DIV class=RTE> </DIV> > <DIV class=RTE>The idea is simple: </DIV> > <DIV class=RTE>- Let a large number of anonymous computers monitor of small > regions of the world wide web. These computer reports web pages changes to a centralized > indexing engine.</DIV> > <DIV class=RTE> </DIV> > <DIV class=RTE>- The centralized engine maintains the duration since the last updates for each area > of the web. This allows to prioritize the monitoring needs per web area.</DIV> > <DIV class=RTE> </DIV> > <DIV class=RTE>- Volunteer anonymous computers can load the next area to monitor (e.g. at the same > time as they get web search results).</DIV> > <DIV class=RTE> </DIV> > <DIV class=RTE>The result is that the indexes are kept up to date with minimal efforts for > the indexing engine and for the anonymous computers. And the reaction of the search engine to web > pages update is extremly quick. </DIV> > <DIV class=RTE> </DIV> > <DIV class=RTE>If the anonymous computers monitor web sites that are in their location, we also > obtain that the (long distance) crawling bandwith is minimized.</DIV> > <DIV class=RTE> </DIV> > <DIV class=RTE>Is anybody working on something similar ? Are there any effort to distribute the > search engine components ?</DIV> > <DIV class=RTE> </DIV> > <DIV class=RTE>Bye,</DIV> > <DIV class=RTE>Brice</DIV></div><br clear=all><hr>Protect your PC - <a > href="http://g.msn.com/8HMAEN/2755??PS=";>Click here</a> for McAfee.com VirusScan Online </html> > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Nutch-developers mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-developers > > ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Nutch-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-developers
