A friend asked me to look into whether YaCy is relevant to search on Freenet. As I see it, the challenge we have is to create a search function that is simultaneously: - Reasonably fast (ideally really fast for e.g. hashtag searches) - Scalable - Spam resistant (possibly using a web of trust, and bearing in mind that CAPTCHAs and hashcash are both problematic) - Decentralised (ideally fully, but at least queries should be possible without any central server; index creation can be centralised for now) - Anonymous - Ideally supports ranking and adjacent word searches etc. (Not relevant to hashtag searches)
We can have a few of these attributes, but getting all of them together seems to be something of a theoretical challenge... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20120731/550b9fb8/attachment.pgp>
