P2P Web searches

prostoalex writes "Researchers at UCLA are looking for easier ways to implement Web searches by using peer-to-peer techniques to decrease the workload. 'Queries need to be passed along only a few links rather than flooded throughout the network, which keeps search-related traffic low,' reports Technology Research News."

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Last time I checked,

[rasafras]

Google still works.

Results 1 - 10 of about 6,290,000 for p2p [definition]. (0.19 seconds)

The Ask Slashdot section

[Man of E]

P2P searching? The Ask Slashdot section does P2P searching already (in a less fancy-schmancy way), moreso than some would like :-)

Q: What is $search_term and how does it work?
A: A simple google search shows that $search_term is $blahblah and you use it like $this (repeated a hundred times)

Add another hundred replies about how the poster should search before submitting, and how AskSlashdot is degenerating into AskPeopleToGoogleForYou, and there you have it. P2P searching in all its glory.

Re:Too many people trying to use p2p

[Anonymous Coward]

Which is why I still prefer walking everywhere, using chalk and slate for taking notes, and refuse to use a zipper...

And why I like using my RPN calculator to change the TV station...