Although the largest Internet search engines and indexes like Google and AltaVista are commercial property, there are ambitious efforts to create open-source alternatives to them. No one is yet providing a serious threat to Google, but these efforts represent a very serious presumption that the resources of the Internet are public, and that the public should have open access to them. Indexes can be set up on a small scale, or globally. They can be operated by corporations, individuals, or communities. This website is especially interested in global, community-level, grassroots, cooperative - distributed - systems. That's our bias - developing an index by the people, for the people, of the people, as it were. This is a place for people interested in building, designing, or just talking about open source Internet indexes, search engines and spiders and robots. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog as well as Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
posted by Marcus Zillman |
4:10 AM
