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Perennial SearcherJune 4, 2009 Is it Unwise to Rely on 1 Search Engine?The Guardian delivers this provocative thought piece about search engines and how it’s important not to solely rely on one company for search. Essentially, the writer, Cory Doctorow, is asking the following: Why couldn’t there be an open source search engine that follows the collaborative style and process of, say, Wikipedia? Excerpt: “Could we build such a thing? It’d be as unlikely as a noncommercial, volunteer-written encyclopedia. It would require vast resources. But it would have one gigantic advantage over the proprietary search engines: rather than relying on weak ’security through obscurity’ to fight spammers, creeps and parasites, such a system could exploit the powerful principles of peer review that are the gold standard in all other areas of information security.” posted by Brian at 2:13 pm | Comments (0) No Comments »RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI Leave a comment
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