Michael Wiktowy <spam at mindless.com> wrote: > the general request (aka search):
> Someone is interested in a general subject (say mp3s) and maybe even a > specific topic (say a particular music group). They make an attempt at > guessing a key. This may just be a keyword. Since they don't know exactly > what they are looking for they certainly don't have a CHK so they send > off a data request without one. This request in smartly routed using the > KHK. We are using the term "searching" somewhat ambiguously. As you use it here you are basically referring to key guessing, and routing using the normal Freenet routing algorithm. I think "searching" has more generally referred to some mechanism to let you find data when you can't guess the key. You could try to make some kind of broadcast work, as Brandon and others have proposed. Ian suggests doing a fuzzy match on the keys. Others have proposed putting the data in (as index/metadata entries) multiple times under many different relevant keywords so that the guess-and-route algorithm has a better chance of finding the data. To be clear, your proposal doesn't really try to solve the searching problem, but it could seemingly be used in conjunction with these other possible approaches. Hal _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
