What is FAROO?

FAROO is a program that implements web search based on Peer-to-peer technology. After the program is downloaded and installed, the searcher becomes part of a world wide distributed search engine. Every web page visited is automatically included in the index of the search engine.

The idea

The collection of the whole, exponentially growing Web on a single central system is not successful on the long run. (e.g. Google’s Index) Despite constantly increasing investments in hardware, the completeness and freshness of the search index will steadily decrease. With the concept of a distributed peer-to-peer search engine, the same users who provide the content of the Internet also assure that it is findable too.

The searcher becomes a part of FAROO.

The architecture is decentralized like the Internet itself, so there’s no longer a central institution between the information source and the searcher. With the tremendous growth of information the relevance of search results becomes more important. This challenge is solved by a fully automatic ranking of web page content by the users of the peer-to-peer search engine.

Q: What does “FAROO” mean?

A: The ancient Egyptian Pharaohs built the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the seventh wonder of the ancient world, in 300 B.C. on the island of Pharaohs. After the tower was built, it was called simply ‘Pharaohs,’ and the name became synonymous for lighthouse in many languages, e.g. Italian and Spanish, and Portuguese, ‘faro.’ Can you FAROO?

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