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You can already search your browsing history. Non-centralized personal search engines have a few challenges to solve before they're feasible. 1) The web cannot
by medecau 8y ago
You can already search your browsing history.
Non-centralized personal search engines have a few challenges to solve before they're feasible.
1) The web cannot support thousands or even millions of spiders/crawlers.
2) Search indexes are (probably?) too huge to distribute. See the commoncrawl project. It's TB for a few Billion pages.
3) Assuming a single crawler collects the necessary data, indexes can be easily distributed, and the search engine software is simple to set-up, who is going to subsidise this effort?
- ohiovr 8y agoShared browsing search could be a thing maybe as a hobby only though. Probably the only way to make it work is if "you want the privilage to search you must serve too" kind of motto.