Google and the Net

[Trei, Peter]

> Steve Schear[SMTP:schear at lvcm.com]
> 
> 
> At 11:40 PM 10/9/2001 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote:
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> >
> >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....

Peter Trei