Re: Free Software-like equivalents of Google?

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 12:43 +0200, Arik Baratz wrote:
> When there is no single entity governing those databases, and they
> will become popular, eventually commercial enterprises will start
> thinking up ways of making money off these databases, and subvert the
> integrity mechanisms that those databases have.
> 
> They are trying to do it to Google today, and there's every reason to
> believe that they will try to do it to your futuristic distributed
> search engine. You could battle it with integrity algorithms and
> reputation systems, but as we all painfully know, a net of millions of
> zombies can subvert a reputation system.
> 
> While I don't like shooting your idea down, how do you propose the
> system can be made resilient to the huge economic pressure that a
> system in that order of magnitude will inevitably attract?

How about a reputation system based upon personal views?

Each item of knowledge will have one (or more) entities which vouch for
it.  Those entities are, too, subject to vouching by other entities.

An user will select some entities upon whose word he relies (in a fuzzy
logic way) and each time he accesses the database, the results will be
ranked according to degree of endorsement they received from the
entities (directly or indirectly) chosen by the user.

For the special case entity==Google's PageRank algorithm, this reduces
to the ranking provided by Google.

If an entity vouches for a knowledge item, which the user rejects as
inappropriate, the user will declare in his profile that this entity is
not to be relied upon in the future.
                                       --- Omer
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