Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-new-httpd-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 91344 invoked by uid 500); 13 Mar 2000 09:39:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact new-httpd-help@apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list new-httpd@apache.org Received: (qmail 91332 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2000 09:39:02 -0000 Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 01:39:01 -0800 (PST) From: Ask Bjoern Hansen To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Re: Funny stuff In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Dean Gaudet wrote: > one solution is to build a distributed search engine which takes into > account your personal tastes and can't easily be tainted by corporate > interests. > > for example, your search profile is based on the email you read, and the > web pages you visit (through a proxy which collects the stats). your > profile is augmented by those of people you trust -- the trust model is > part of your profile. [...] Yeah, the backflip.com thing on steroids. A friend of mine keeps rambling about doing something like what you suggested. To keep it simpler you could keep it to only searching in each others bookmarks (which (for netscape at least) could be kept central with netscape roaming access). "The trust model" would still be a lot of thought and code though. So as you say, it's a lot of development to get to work. - ask -- ask bjoern hansen - more than 70M impressions per day,