В 21:51 +0100 на 29.11.2011 (вт), tegskywalker[@nospam] написа: > I'm starting to get deja-vu when reading this because I think someone may or > may not have tried this like 5+ years ago with the P2P search engine.
Wikia Search used a peer-to-peer crawler, called Grub. [1] That is all that I can remember. > > To be honest though, this would be much better if it didn't rely on an > install and was purely in the web browser. Actually it wouldn't be. The browser is already a bloatware. It uses too much memory and sometimes CPU. There are still rare implementations (Midori, Epiphany; text based tings like w3m, links, lynx ...) that are not so greedy. Firefox and forks are the worst. Above 400MB, above 1GB. Come on! Firefox releases after version 4 even pollute memory faster than I can pronounce "random access memory". The tasks of crawling, indexing etc. etc. just do not fit in the browser. > I say this so users of any platform can take advantage of it YaCy has versions for proprietary operating systems. > and not install anything. When the user has a real operating system, installing is not that big of a deal. In GNU/Linux it is usually few words on the command line or few clicks in GUI. I have almost no experience with *BSDs, but installation there is also relatively easy. If that is hard, I don't know what easy is. > Of course if they clear their cookies and/or local storage, then the data is > gone unless > it becomes centralized syncing with a server. If we assume that everybody on the p2p search network has access to all the crawled data, than theoretically the data should be on the network (everybody), easily fetched. P.S. The one thing I don't like about YaCy is it is written in Java. I think this makes software slow. But if it becomes popular I bet someone will write C or at least C++ libraries, crawlers, indexers, clients etc. etc. that use the protocol. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grub_%28search_engine%29
