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P2P Web searches

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-level-up-please dept.

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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  1. I foresee.. by Gentlewhisper · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe in future Google will implement a small server in our "Gmail notifier" application, and each time we search for something on google, it will cache some of the results, and should anyone close by ask for it, just forward the old results to them.

    Save the server load on the main google server!

    **Plus maybe some smart guy will figure out how to trade mp3s over the GoOgLe-P2p network! :D

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  2. UCLA discovers ultrapeers! by Magila · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From a quick read of the article it sounds like what they've done is implemented a slightly more sophistcated/less deterministic version of the ultrapeer/hub system already in use by Gnutella/G2 Basicaly quereies are routed such that they are guarenteed to reach a "highly-connected node" which is the equivalent of an ultrapeer/hub node. The main difference is the folks at UCLA have come up with a novel method of picking ultrapeers, but the end result isn't much different.