I'm kinda confused as to what you're asking.
> Does the Freenet architecture allow for keyword searches of the text
bodies of the
>documents on there? I think this would really popularise anonymous
>publishing networks
>by allowing people to search other than URLs.
I agree. It would. I don't think there's currently a way to search
Freenet at all. Currently, if you want to know what's out there, you have
to have somebody else tell you, either by posting to Frost ("my freesite is
at such-and-such") or by submitting the freesite to The Freedom Engine
freesite. There's a file search option on Frost. I'm not sure how it
works, but it only allows for searching by file name. One could submit an
index file along with whatever document being inserted. People actually do
this, with images at least.
>Quick background on searching by keyword is, to make it less processor
>intensive than
>loading up all the files and searching through them one at a time is, you
>make an index
>file first of all those files, which merely indicates that the word
>"rhubarb" is in file
>10 ("rhubarb.txt"), the index is small and quick to access.
Perhaps I'm missing something. It seems to me that if you wanted to index
the words that appear in a given text document, you'd have something only
marginally smaller than the original document, unless you come up with a
way to index only important words, or words that represent the unique value
of the document.
>Okay, so you publish the index on Freenet. Then what? The only way to use
>it is to get
>it and look at it, and it must point to documents on Freenet or on a
>particular server
>(usually it is tied up with a document).
It wouldn't point to any particular server. The content of Freenet is
location inspecific. It floats in the ether. In Freenet, a document is
never tied up with a specific server.
>Then you can censor those documents as the
>index will tell you what's in them, merely by going on keyword. I cannot
>see a way round
>this, and my system stores unencrypted documents and is self-censoring by
>whoever stores
>the information.
This is where you lost me. What do you mean "you can censor those
documents"? Your system stores unencrypted documents? Is it supposed
to? What do you mean by "self-censoring"?
You couldn't censor a document on Freenet. The best you can do is just not
request that document, yourself. You couldn't, say, write code that would
block that document from passing through your Freenet node, because there's
no way to tell what document any given pile of bits is.
>No politics here, Freenet is great, but what I want out of such a system
>is keyword
>searching of documents.
Freenet *is* great!
I think keyword searching could be implemented. Not at the Freenet code
level, though. It'd be nice if the programs used to insert stuff into
Freenet would (at the inserter's option) index inserted documents, and put
that index into Freenet as well.
Out of curiosity, what is this project you're working on? Will it be free
software?
-todd
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