Peer to Peer Web Search technology
A mailing list message on the topic of Microsoft Live’s search privacy prompted me to take another look at peer to peer web search applications, and I discovered two – YaCy and Faroo – both promise to protect your anonymity while searching, but paradoxically both will index the web using your click stream.
There are some interesting concepts at work there, in particular YaCy’s reverse word index coupled with downloadable Linked Open Data such as DBPedia, WordNet could form a powerful combination as long as the privacy protection was sound.
