Re: Re: freenet performance

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:43:29AM +0200, Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
> >and how do you search for files in freenet ?
> 
> In short and AFAIK: you can't. Freenet just serves static files, hence 
> static HTML pages. You can't have any kind of server side dynamic pages.
> 
> That leaves room for: client-side spiders. There are several ones run by 
> volunteers.  TFE, FIND, DFI... These usually generate indexes by 
> category and such. I think another twist would be the one I commented 
> earlier: generating some database and publish some open source tool to 
> search it. That could provide something more akin to a web search like 
> google than just an index. The size of the database would be the problem 
> here. An obvious option is to somebody with appropriate resources do 
> this from a server in the non-anonymous internet, be it for research 
> purposes (since nobody wanting to see something anonymously should use a 
> non-anonymous search engine X( ).

And of course Frost provides some kind of searching.
-- 
Matthew J Toseland - toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]
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