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Building a Bigger Search Engine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the size-isn't-everything dept.

skreuzer writes "Wired is running a story about a distributed web crawler called Grub. People who choose to download and run the client will assist in building the Web's largest, most accurate database of URLs. This database will be used to improve existing search engines' results by increasing the frequency at which sites are crawled and indexed. Conceivably, Grub's distributed network could enable state information to be gathered on every document on the Internet, each and every day."

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  1. Re:Yeah what's the corporation bashing? by knowledgepeacewi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Many people around here work for the Government.

    As to whats wrong with Corporations and Big Business:
    in one word: Enron

    In more words that that:
    http://www.corpwatch.org/