Re: Semi-distributed searching (and maybe fully distributed too)

On 28/07/10 18:29, Matthew Toseland wrote:
>> Maybe we could do something even simpler than that. Each indexer
>> publishes her index in the form USK@blah,blah/index/123/keyword.
>> Retrieve only the keywords you're interested in, from only the indexers
>> you trust.
> 
> That's what we do now. It doesn't scale.

I thought the current scheme used one file per indexer, containing all
the indexer's words, whereas I'm suggesting one file per word per
indexer. Or does that come to the same thing due to the use of containers?

Cheers,
Michael