I wasn't really referring to inserting the index as a typical key. The reason why not is because I think this idea is based upon combining indexes so that they slowly grow and 'centralize' in a way, which I don't think is a good idea in a distributed system like this.
What I was referring to was instituting a new Search message type in the Freenet protocol (think somewhat like how Gnutella does this, but our own version of course). The way this message would work is very similar to the way a chain is formed to pass key data back to the requester, which preserves the anonymity of the searcher. Caching the search results along the chain also protects the privacy of the local index because it would contain both locally indexed data and indexes it relayed. Each time a keyword was searched for its results would be distributed to more nodes, expanding the ability to search for that keyword and lessen the bandwidth consumed for X number of results. Would this work? (I am not claming to be an expert of any kind, just throwing out an idea for a searching system that doesn't rely on conglomerating indexes.) Jeremy _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
