Toad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:27:41AM -0700, michael wrote: >> >> So what we someone came up with a tool to do this kind of searching >> and indexing, and the query of the index could be run on your local >> node? The indexes themselves could be distributed as content within >> freenet (so you're not compromising anonymity by using them) and since >> the indexes are inserted under a certain key, they'd be no more or >> less vulnerable to poisoning than trusting one of the existing index >> sites. Instead of going to tfe's page each day, you'd grab your search >> index from tfe and perform your keyword search on your local node. >> Am I missing something obvious here? > > That is the way to go, when things get big. More convenient than the > sites perhaps, but not more secure. Although you could combine several > anonymously inserted indexes using one client. Oh, and it's likely to be > pretty slow unless the indexes are so small that you can fetch the whole > thing every day.
Combining multiple indexes into one search client makes a lot of sense. It would lower susceptibility to a particular indexers bias (either intentional or algorithmic) and it would help with the "indexes get big" problem if you could fetch large indexes once (in a while) and incremental indexes most of the time. Now all we need is an small, easily mergeable, quickly searchable, standardized index format... and the tools to go with it. :) -michael _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
