I just recently sent the message to the gnutella group, and I thought these suggestions might also help the freenet development.
A few features that need to happen in my opinion. The search needs to have more control, which would also eliminate "search noise" for things you are not interested in. The concept of media types or genres/sugjects need to be implemented. media filters such as: music, movie, pictures, models, software, games etc... this list could go on... So when you search for "birds", you could have the filter to restrict "birds" from only the model media type, so I do not get returns for songs, pictures etc... only for 3d models of birds... Also, the concept of the .lsm file would be a great option... If a user so desired, he could have filename.lsm retrieved to get more info, like description, url for icon image, etc... here is a sample one off of a public server... ----snip Begin3 Title: efs Version: 1.0 Entered-date: 02MAY99 Description: Extent File System support (read-only) Keywords: irix efs sgi filesystem Author: Al.Smith at aeschi.ch.eu.org (Al Smith) Maintained-by: Al.Smith at aeschi.ch.eu.org (Al Smith) Primary-site: http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/ 21.6kB efs-1.0.tar.gz Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ Platforms: Linux 2.2 Copying-policy: GPL End ---- snip within this file, you could have the genere/media type and even subtypes... and media types or standards could be added at anytime... I realise that these are old ideas, but they would make the searching mechanisms alot more powerful for the user, and probably lower overall search traffic... ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
