Is it just me or is everyone missing the big picture here?
When I do my search for whatever the heck it is I don't expect or want 10 million results. Searching every user is almost always pointless.
If you actually step back and think about it a distrubuted network like this functions perfectly as a few thousand overlapping smaller networks of 2 or 3 thousand users. This way each person's own mini-network is centered around him.
A excelent side effect of this is it makes the content self filtering as dud material won't propagate far. This is because the user will delete it once they realise its a dud, hence stopping it moving on into neighbouring mini-networks. With a big centralised network like napster all it takes is a few extreamly fast clients offering decoy crap to much everyone around.
Purhaps if no result is found in the immeadiate mini-network then the query could be passed a bit further away, but you would never need to query every last person. Its highly unlikely you would be looking for something so rare that only one person in a million has it...
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Is it just me or is everyone missing the big picture here?
When I do my search for whatever the heck it is I don't expect or want 10 million results. Searching every user is almost always pointless.
If you actually step back and think about it a distrubuted network like this functions perfectly as a few thousand overlapping smaller networks of 2 or 3 thousand users. This way each person's own mini-network is centered around him.
A excelent side effect of this is it makes the content self filtering as dud material won't propagate far. This is because the user will delete it once they realise its a dud, hence stopping it moving on into neighbouring mini-networks. With a big centralised network like napster all it takes is a few extreamly fast clients offering decoy crap to much everyone around.
Purhaps if no result is found in the immeadiate mini-network then the query could be passed a bit further away, but you would never need to query every last person. Its highly unlikely you would be looking for something so rare that only one person in a million has it...
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