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Distributed spidering for a community-fed search engine index would provide comparable end-user benefits while being considerably more socially useful.

by liotier 10y ago

cauterized 10y ago
What an awesome idea!
- cfarre 10y ago
  I agree
rishabhparikh 10y ago
You win buzzword bingo
- jdormit 10y ago
  How else would you describe the system liotier is talking about?
  - logicallee 10y ago
    "Peer-to-peer web spidering for a crowdsourced search engine would create socially responsible end-user value."
  - striking 10y ago
    "Littered with buzzwords" and "interesting" are not necessarily mutually exclusive...
andy_ppp 10y ago
That is an awesome idea - a browser that is also a node in a search engine; it would be possible to build an experimental search engine then without a £40 million + investment to even get started.
- r721 10y ago
  This exists: http://yacy.net/en/index.html http://yacy.net/en/index.html
  - cryptarch 10y ago
    It's a distributed search engine deamon with a nice search + management web frontend but not a browser too?
    - r721 10y ago
      I didn't install it myself, but I thought it's possible to interact with that daemon from common browser? Also it's possible to start custom web crawls?
Cyph0n 10y ago
Or maybe even a crawling project like Common Crawl.
floatboth 10y ago
http://www.yacy.net/en/ http://www.yacy.net/en/
ballenf 10y ago
Or a local meetup group for subscribers to a compatible ISP (all DOCSIS 3.x cable modems, e.g.) where you bring in your cable modems throw them in a pile and then take home a random one. Do it monthly. Combine that with a script that takes all non-sensitive browser history and cookies and does the same -- swap out with a random stranger. Neither is practical and the former would require (at least for my provider) that I go through a sometimes cumbersome process of registering the new device's MAC address.
- luhn 10y ago
  How would the former affect web trackers?

Distributed spidering for a community-fed search engine index would provide comparable end-user benefits while being considerably more socially useful.

by liotier 10y ago

Distributed spidering for a community-fed search engine index would provide comparable end-user benefits while being considerably more socially useful.

cauterized 10y ago

What an awesome idea!

cfarre 10y ago
I agree

rishabhparikh 10y ago

You win buzzword bingo

jdormit 10y ago
How else would you describe the system liotier is talking about?
- logicallee 10y ago
  "Peer-to-peer web spidering for a crowdsourced search engine would create socially responsible end-user value."
- striking 10y ago
  "Littered with buzzwords" and "interesting" are not necessarily mutually exclusive...

andy_ppp 10y ago

That is an awesome idea - a browser that is also a node in a search engine; it would be possible to build an experimental search engine then without a £40 million + investment to even get started.

r721 10y ago
This exists: http://yacy.net/en/index.html http://yacy.net/en/index.html
- cryptarch 10y ago
  It's a distributed search engine deamon with a nice search + management web frontend but not a browser too?
  - r721 10y ago
    I didn't install it myself, but I thought it's possible to interact with that daemon from common browser? Also it's possible to start custom web crawls?

Cyph0n 10y ago

Or maybe even a crawling project like Common Crawl.

floatboth 10y ago

http://www.yacy.net/en/ http://www.yacy.net/en/

ballenf 10y ago

Or a local meetup group for subscribers to a compatible ISP (all DOCSIS 3.x cable modems, e.g.) where you bring in your cable modems throw them in a pile and then take home a random one. Do it monthly. Combine that with a script that takes all non-sensitive browser history and cookies and does the same -- swap out with a random stranger. Neither is practical and the former would require (at least for my provider) that I go through a sometimes cumbersome process of registering the new device's MAC address.

luhn 10y ago
How would the former affect web trackers?