[Freenet-dev] Searching proposal

2000-05-04 Thread 1723
Ian Clarke schrieb: > > I have given some thought to the issue of searching, and I have come up > with some ideas which I would like to get your opinions on. eh, i had similar thoughts at the same time ;-) how do you think to use the search-requests? should they be handled like key-requests or sh

[Freenet-dev] Searching proposal

2000-05-03 Thread Ian Clarke
I have given some thought to the issue of searching, and I have come up with some ideas which I would like to get your opinions on. I started thinking about what if you could search for something like: contains("tori amos") and (contains("little earthquakes") or contains("girl")) When a node rec

[Freenet-dev] Searching Proposal

2000-04-11 Thread Brandon
> With smart searches, the load on the network grows linearly with the > number of nodes, as long as HTL remains constant. You put ten times as > This makes traffic per node approximately constant, independent of the > size of the network. That's scalability. Requests as they currently work wil

[Freenet-dev] Searching Proposal

2000-04-11 Thread Brandon
This message is quite long. Just to warn you. - Why A Broadcast-based Search Method Will Work On Freenet Author: Brandon Wiley (blanu at uts.cc.utexas.edu) This is a proposal for a searching mechanism for Freenet. The different between this method and others is t

[Freenet-dev] Searching Proposal

2000-04-11 Thread h...@finney.org
I don't think the problem with searching is "exponential growth" of the number of nodes searched (with increasing HTL). Rather, it is "N squared growth" in the load on the network, where N is the number of nodes. With smart searches, the load on the network grows linearly with the number of nodes