[liberationtech] Thought experiment for Independence Day...

[Julien Rabier]

Le 04 juil. - 08:09, Doug Schuler a écrit :
> 
> Thought experiment for Independence Day...
> 
> How easy would it be to develop a “Public Google” that was distributed
> across tens of thousands of computers similar to the way that the SETI at home
> project uses the cycles of computers all over the world? 
> 
> I’m not sure how to keep the NSA out but this approach might be a good way
> to slow down the mining of personal data and provide a public alternative
> to the monopoly on search and access that Google has recently attained.
> 
> Of course after that the possibility of a Public Facebook etc. etc. also
> becomes more realistic?
> 
> This project seems do-able and the window may be shrinking?
> 
> Thanks for indulging me!
> 
> — Doug

Creating a "Public Google" as you describe it wouldn't be a good idea. The
way Google does thing is not optimal. They're basically copying the web to
make an index out of it.
You would need an incredible amount of ressources to do the same from scratch
today, even in a distributed way.

What makes more sense, is to share and distribute an index of preferences
over results from different search engines.
That was the intent of the now dead Seeks Project :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeks

The manifesto is not online anymore but I'll try to get a hand on it and
share it in this thread later.

taziden