I don't quite understand Gnip, but Brewster Kahle's WAIS has/had each machine offering its own results from its own personal database. I believe Gene Kan (RIP)

I don't quite understand Gnip, but Brewster Kahle's WAIS has/had each machine offering its own results from its own personal database. I believe Gene Kan (RIP) also had this in mind with his Gnutella work. I also wanted to build a system based around Gnutella, searching text documents across a whole P2P network, but nobody in the Gnutella community wanted to adopt my ideas.