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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

Presearch

Presearch is a search engine powered by a distributed network of community operated nodes which aggregate results from a variety of sources. This powers the searches at https://engine.presearch.org/search This is planned to be a precursor where each node collaborates on a global decentralised index. [1]

YaCy

On December 15, 2003 Michael Christen announced development of a P2P-based search engine, eventually named YaCy, on the heise online forums.[2][3]

Dews

A theoretical design for adistributed search engine discussed in academic literature. [4]

Seeks

Seeks was an open source websearch proxy and collaborative distributed tool for websearch. It ceased to have a usable release in 2016.

InfraSearch

In April 2000 several programmers (including Gene Kan, Steve Waterhouse) built a prototype P2P web search engine based on Gnutella called InfraSearch. The technology was later acquired by Sun Microsystems and incorporated into the JXTA project.[5] It was meant to run inside the participating websites' databases creating a P2P network that could be accessed through the InfraSearch website.[6][7][8]

Opencola

On May 31, 2000 Steelbridge Inc. announced development of OpenCOLA a collaborative distributive open source search engine.[9] 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.[10]

FAROO

In February 2001 Wolf Garbe published an idea of a peer-to-peer search engine,[11] started the Faroo prototype in 2004,[12] and released it in 2005.[13][14]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Presearch is a Decentralized Search Engine".
  2. ^ "YaCy: News". Archived from the original on 2005-11-24.
  3. ^ Michael Christen. "Ich entwickle eine P2P-basierende Suchmaschine. Wer macht mit?". heise online.
  4. ^ "DEWS: A decentralized engine for Web search".
  5. ^ Justin Hibbard. "Can peer-to-peer grow up?". Red Herring.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ Simon Foust. "Move Over Yahoo, Here Comes InfraSearch". Dmusic. Archived from the original on 2000-10-13.
  7. ^ Sean M. Dugan. "Peer-to-peer networking is poised to revolutionize the Internet once again". InfoWorld. Archived from the original on 2000-10-18.
  8. ^ John Borland. "Napster-like technology takes Web search to new level". Cnet.
  9. ^ David Akin. "Software launched with a little pop". Financial Post.[dead link]
  10. ^ Paul Heltzel. "OpenCola-Have Some Code and a Smile". Technology Review.
  11. ^ Wolf Garbe. "BINGOOO - Die Transformation des World Wide Web zur virtuellen Datenbank" (in German). Wirtschaftinformatik. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2010-12-21. ... 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] ...
  12. ^ Bernard Lunn. "Technical Q&A With FAROO Founder". ReadWriteWeb. Archived from the original on 2011-02-14. ... When I started to work on the first prototype in 2004 ...
  13. ^ "FAROO: History". Archived from the original on 2008-03-22.
  14. ^ "Revisited: Deriving crawler start points from visited pages by monitoring HTTP traffic". Faroo.
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