Google and the Net
Steve Schear
schear at lvcm.com
Wed Oct 10 23:21:01 PDT 2001
At 09:33 AM 10/10/2001 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
> > Steve Schear[SMTP:schear at lvcm.com]
> >
> >
> > At 11:40 PM 10/9/2001 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >It's unfortunate that we have to rely on Google. Imagine an ongoing,
> > >distributed project to cache the web. Volunteers could keep tabs on
> > >a subset of corporate and personal web pages and cache old versions
> > >when changes are made. Rewriting history becomes that much harder.
> > >And it's certainly a better use of computers than seti at home.
> >
> > This is actually an excellent application front end for a Mojo Nation type
> >
> > system, as the data is redundant and distributed.
> >
>You get an interesting recursion problem arising - does your 'memory
>of the web' site include sites which contain archives for the purpose of
>being 'memory of the web'? Shades of Godel....
Since the Mojo space is not included within those of the Web how would this
recursion take place?
steve
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