"Mark J. Roberts" wrote: > > > It is also interesting to consider what happens when a large number of > > hits are found. The user would have to actually retrieve the files in > > order to determine if they are valid or not. So, you may spam a large > > number of queries, and much of it will go unnoticed in such a > > situation, and this would further increase the apparent validity of > > the spammed results. > > > > At least, that is my understanding. > > Requesting the URIs returned wouldn't affect the search system, afaict. > As I understand it, requesting and searching are separate things.
Right, it wont. But how else will you determine if the meta data is accurate or not? So in a sense it affects it indirectly, in that you must download the associated data for a given meta data key to determine if that meta data is actually correct. > Anyway, I don't believe that many people need searching--especially for > popular content, which will certainly be catalogued. Searching is only > useful for obscure documents that would not ordinarily be noticed and > catalogued. Such documents probably won't survive on Freenet! I beleive the opposite actually. I know that I want something called 'DeCSS', but what is its key? That is somewhat akin to saying, Anyone can find the populat sites, all they need is the URL. Well, sometimes you know the kind of site your looking for, but not the URL. Also, the catalogues were always a stop gap solution (at least as far as I have seen them mentioned). And is there any more certainty that something in a catalogue will necessarily survive in freenet? > Most people who advocate searching argue that it'll make Freenet more > like Napster or Gnutella. They're right, and that's why it doesn't > belong in Freenet. (OK, maybe that's extreme. But there is some truth to > it.) > I dont want searching to make freenet like napster or gnutella. I want searching to make freenet more useable and usefull. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
