[FoRK] Scientific Search Option, Vertical Search Engines

[Dave Long]

> The interesting part, who's going to package a full text indexer,
> a small crawler and UDP lossy query scatter/gather. ...
> 
> Being distributed in the grassroots, even though on shitty hosts like
> DSL is an actual advantage.

cf. Sitaker, (more on) "distributed peer-to-peer full-text web searching" 
http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2004-February/000753.html
http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2004-February/000754.html

-Dave