HACKER Q&A
📣 logicallee

What features would you like to see in a P2P search engine?


I have a long weekend and I am thinking of putting online a p2p search engine for the web. Searching the web is too large for me or anyone to crawl by themselves but a group of people could do text-search on the sites of interest to us.

Would you use a p2p search engine? What features would you like to see in a peer-to-peer search engine whose nodes crawl the web and run search queries?


  👤 r721 Accepted Answer ✓
Creating a not-Java clone of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy makes sense, maybe?

Another feature I think could be important is integrating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Crawl datasets.


👤 speedgoose
Some concepts about privacy and perhaps features to prevent being a tool for child pornography and other illegal and immoral content.

👤 _trampeltier
Some years ago, I played a but with yazy websearch (yazy.net). Yazy cannot index Tor / onion sites, so maybe that.

👤 eimrine
ability to find cp, of course.