New contender, HyperBee distributed search engine?

[NFFC]

Don't get me wrong new search engines are ten a penny but this one may have legs;

PR stuff..

Miller said Hyperbee is a peer-to-peer network of volunteers whose computers crawl the Web and process data at a faster pace and with more depth than conventional search engines.....It operates in a fashion similar to Seti@Home, a screensaver-based program...

[newsbytes.com...]

Caught the eye stuff..

Are you hiring?
Sorry, but no. We're not even a company! We're just a bunch of academics at Georgia Tech's College of Computing.

[hyperbee.com...]

I see promise there, anyone who can say "We're not even a company!" is in with a shout. One to watch imho.

[Macguru]

Hey this seem like a good idea! Using all those computers out there for crawling the Web. Hope it will crawl without abusing servers. It will be impossible to control all theses computers at once.

[GoogleGuy]

Has anyone signed up to be a beta tester? You could be Bee #20!

[hyperbee.com...]

[toolman]

Thou shalt always validate thy form fields.

[TallTroll]

>> Has anyone signed up to be a beta tester? You could be Bee #20!

Mee-oww! Getting worried? ;)

Its a cool idea.... If only a very small fraction of the users of the Web signed up, they could collectively command far more raw computing power than any SE could afford

<small>I feel I may be preaching to the converted as regards the benefits of the peer-to-peer model here...:)</small>

Its still going to come down to the algo though. The best index in the world doesn't make the best SE. Right now, I still think Google have the edge

[sean]

This could allow for ridiculously in-depth calculations for relevancy, but even the most rudimentary calculation of reputation will be a challenge. Too bad one is meaningless without the other. If they find a way to efficiently calculate reputation, look out…
</much easier said than done>

[TallTroll]

From the largest distributed computing project in the world [setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu]

Total users : over 3.3 million
Total CPU time to date : nearly 800,000 YEARS
CPU time over last 24 hours : 1068.684 years

OK, so SETI pulls in spare supercomputer time, but what do you do with over a millenium of CPU time a day?

I like the groups [setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu] section as well. Check out #58, #106, and just dont ask about #198

and before you ask, no, I'm not a member :)