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A distributed search engine is a search engine where there is no central server. Unlike traditional centralized search engines, work such as crawling, data mining, indexing, and query processing is distributed among several peers in a decentralized manner where there is no single point of control.

History

InfraSearch

In April 2000 three programmers (one of them was Gene Kan) built a prototype P2P web search engine based on Gnutella called InfraSearch.[1] It was meant to run inside the participating websites' databases creating a P2P network that could be accessed through the InfraSearch website.[2][3][4]

Opencola

On May 31, 2000 Steelbridge Inc. announced development of OpenCOLA a collaborative distributive open source search engine.[5] It runs on the user's computer and crawls the web pages and links the user puts in their opencola folder and shares resulting index over its P2P network.[6]

YaCy

On December 15, 2003 Michael Christen announced development of a P2P-based search engine, eventually named YaCy, on the heise online forums.[7][8]

FAROO

In February 2001 Wolf Garbe published an idea of a peer-to-peer search engine,[9] started the Faroo prototype in 2004,[10] and released it in 2005.[11][12]

See also

References

  1. ^ Justin Hibbard. "Can peer-to-peer grow up?". Red Herring. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ Simon Foust. "Move Over Yahoo, Here Comes InfraSearch". 'Dmusic. Archived from the original on 2000-10-13. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ Sean M. Dugan. "Peer-to-peer networking is poised to revolutionize the Internet once again". InfoWorld. Archived from the original on 2000-10-18. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  4. ^ John Borland. "Napster-like technology takes Web search to new level". Cnet. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. ^ David Akin. "Software launched with a little pop". Financial Post. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)[dead link‍]
  6. ^ Paul Heltzel. "OpenCola-Have Some Code and a Smile". Technology Review. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ "YaCy: News". Archived from the original on 2005-11-24.
  8. ^ Michael Christen. "Ich entwickle eine P2P-basierende Suchmaschine. Wer macht mit?". heise online. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  9. ^ Wolf Garbe. "BINGOOO - Die Transformation des World Wide Web zur virtuellen Datenbank" (in German). Wirtschaftinformatik (magazine). ... Wir setzen dem das Konzept einer verteilten Peer-to-Peer-Suchmaschine entgegen [We counter with the concept of a distributed peer-to-peer search engine] ... {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  10. ^ Bernard Lunn. "Technical Q&A With FAROO Founder". ReadWriteWeb. ... When I started to work on the first prototype in 2004 ... {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  11. ^ "FAROO: History". Archived from the original on 2008-03-22.
  12. ^ "Revisited: Deriving crawler start points from visited pages by monitoring HTTP traffic". Faroo. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
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