I guess sixearch might be the thing you are looking for... http://sixearch.org/
Sixearch is a collaborative peer network application, which aims to address the scalability and context limitations of centralized search engines and also provides a complementary way for Web search. Sixearch uses the idea of modeling neighbor nodes by their content but without assuming the presence of special directory hubs. As shown in Fig. 1, each peer is both a (limited) directory hub and a content provider; it has its own topical crawler guided by its user's information content and local search engine. Peers communication is built on JXTA <http://www.jxta.org/>platform . When a user submits a query, it is first matched against the local engine, and then routed to neighbor peers to obtain more results. Ideally, the peer network should lead to the emergence of a clustered topology by intelligent collaboration between the peers. While traditional search engines such as Google and Yahoo provide access to very large document collections, the Sixearch P2P Web search application provides a complementary way for users to actively and collaboratively share their own document collections. However, the Sixearch framework allows traditional search engines to naturally be included as peers; such peers would quickly emerge as reliable, trustworthy, and general authority nodes. Ye Minjiao eO0o. George Bernard Shaw<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_bernard_shaw.html> - "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Otis Gospodnetic <otis_gospodne...@yahoo.com > wrote: > > Big +1 ! :) > > It would make for a cool case study for Lucene in Action 3rd edition ;) > > Otis > -- > Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Shashi Kant <sk...@sloan.mit.edu> > > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > > Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2009 8:03:56 AM > > Subject: P2P Lucene > > > > Hi all, > > > > I am writing to gauge the group's interest level in building a P2P > > application using Lucene. Nothing fancy, just good old-fashioned P2P > > search across one's social-network or work-network (very unlike > > Gnutella, Kazaa etc.). The obvious business-case for this could be > > many such as document sharing/location within organizations without > > centralized repositories. As is well known - intentionally or > > inadvertently - most documents are locked-up in individual computers > > and such a tool could provide a powerful discovery mechanism. > > > > I was thinking of create an F/OSS project leveraging Lucene and > > Jabber/XMPP, but something far more lightweight than comparable > > "groupware" projects with a dead-simple permission-based sharing > > system. Lightweight simplicity being the operative words. > > > > Just curious to see the interest level in collaborating on such an > > effort, and/or sharing any other ideas where such an effort would be > > helpful. > > > > Thanks, > > Shashi > > > > sk...@alum.mit.edu > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
