I have a lot of respect for Google, but I don't like monopolies, whether it is Microsoft or Google. I think it is vitally important that there be several viable search competators.
I wish this wicki one luck. As I said, it sounds a lot like your idea. Ed Porter -----Original Message----- From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 9:24 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Distributed search (was RE: Hacker intelligence level [WAS Re: [agi] Funding AGI research]) --- Ed Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt, > > Perhaps your are right. > > But one problem is that big Google-like compuplexes in the next five to ten > years will be powerful enough to do AGI and they will be much more efficient > for AGI search because the physical closeness of their machines will make it > possible for them to perform the massive interconnected needed for powerful > AGI much more efficiently. Google controls about 0.1% of the world's computing power. But I think their ability to achieve AGI first will not be so much due to the high bandwidth of their CPU cluster, as that nobody controls the other 99.9%. Centralized search tends to produce monopolies as the cost of entry goes up. It is not so bad now because Google still has a (dwindling) set of competitors. They can't yet hide content that threatens them. Distributed search like Wikia/Atlas/Grub is interesting, but if people don't see a compelling need for it, it won't happen. How big will it have to get before it is better than Google? File sharing networks would probably be a lot bigger and more useful (with mostly legitimate content) if we could solve the distributed search problem. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=73068614-a9079e
