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Federating Internet search

• yungchin 17y ago
  (This is my own, in case that wasn't already very clear... I hope for forgiveness on the basis that it's not totally rubbish)
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• joechung 17y ago
  What about Dogpile? (http://dogpile.com http://dogpile.com)
  • yungchin 17y ago
    I guess that solves half of the problem - allowing you to compare results between engines should keep them "honest". But the barrier to entry for a new engine would remain as high, or?
• Raphael 17y ago
  So, do we get around the server costs by daisy chaining? Your search front end queries a few search providers, which mix their own content with the cached results from a few others, and so on.