Re: Free Software-like equivalents of Google?

On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:56:55PM +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> Omer Zak wrote:

>> Now Google is in the news, and "threatens" to engulf the entire world
>> and become the next Microsoft.

>> Just as Linux is competing with Microsoft and is checking its
>> threat, it may be a good idea to have something, which competes
>> with Google.

IMO, just as with GNU/Linux it is not about mere competition, it is
about freedom and working differently. There is at least one project I
vaguely remember that had the aim of creating a WWW-scale search
engine where everything possible is made in a distributed way with
resources donated by users themselves (e.g. giving a few GB/month of
bandwidth from their DSL lines), where the index is so distributed
that nobody can "take it away" and limit access to it, etc.

http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/
http://www.opensourcesearch.org/wiki/index.php/Newish_Search_and_Networking_Engines
http://www.opensourcesearch.org/wiki/index.php/Relevant_Open_Source_Projects%2C_Code_and_Libraries
http://search.minty.org/
http://www.openwebspider.org/

-- 
Lionel

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