FAROO P2P Web Search Announces Public Beta!
From today, FAROO’s private beta test becomes public. The current release marks a milestone, which allows them to open the beta test to a wider audience.
The idea behind FAROO:
The collection of the whole, exponentially growing Web on a single central system is not successful on the long run. 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 assure also, that it is findable too. Thus the search results may be provided more up-to-date, more comprehensive and more cost-efficient.
The searcher becomes a part of FAROO. The architecture is decentralized like the Internet itself. There stands no more central institution between the information source and the searcher. With the tremendous growth of information the relevance of search results becomes more important. This is assured by an fully automatic ranking of web page content by the users of the peer-to-peer search engine.
They have been busy to further improve the search experience of their p2p web search engine.
Network Visualization
New geographical P2P network visualization at the search page like so:
Auto Suggest
New Ajax based query auto suggest.
External Sources
External source integration for additional results, if a query can’t be answered from the distributed index.
Active Crawler
New active, community directed crawler. Crawler start points are derived from searches of the FAROO users.
And much more. Try FAROO and then come back and leave a comment for our readers.
