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  • 24 Sep 09
    sriks6711
    Srikant Jakilinki

    We have just started a free distributed search engine for scientific knowledge based on YACY peer2peer technology (Michael Christen).

    The KIT search engine initiative Sciencenet is a distributed search engine for scientific knowledge. We have started indexing the scientific web with standard desktop PCs at KIT.
    * You can test the current search results here sciencenet.fzk.de (alpha)
    * You can download the free YACY software (java) and contribute with your own search peer (see below).

    Current search engines are based on popularity and/or sponsored links. Often the index is outdated. This makes it often difficult for scientists/students/teachers to find up-to-date scientific information. Many interesting scientific (lab-)websites are simply not popular enough for Google & co .
    Large scale search engines are "resource hungry". Thousands of computers are necessary to create a proper and fast index of global scale.
    The YACY peer to peer (p2p) technology comes here very handy. Many standard PCs distributed across the globe share the index of a large search engine.
    Every PC keeps a fraction of the search engine index. The more PCs connected, the more pages can be indexed, stored and retrieved.
    Currently a single YACY installation (on a standard PC) is good enough for 10 Mio web pages. The faster the PC (and the discs) the more pages can be searched in an reasonable amount of time.

    Ideally every research institute runs it´s own search peer (or several) keeping the local part of the index up to date. If Google or any other search engine would crawl the entire internet on a daily basis, no bandwith would be left for anything.
    If you want to help indexing universities, research facilities or other scientific relevant sites, please feel free and download your own free Sciencenet YACY software here.

    If you don´t find your institute or university or your favourite scientific website in the index it is about time to download the client and support the network.
    1) if not done already (download java (http://www.java.c

  • 02 Dec 07
    jiyugu
    Jinn-Yuh Guh

    p2p bioinformatics wiki best

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