Contribute to the World’s Open Source Search Engine
That’s the idea behind Grub, the open source search distributed resources search engine. Part of the source code have been made open to the world, and clients are available to download and share your resources to help build the world’s largest web index database. Clients running on PCs all over the world will use the CPU and bandwidth resources to index the web and update the Grub database with the new information. Only that part is done on user machine, real time queries are sent to their server directly.
Do you get paid for sharing your resources? I didn’t think so, no you don’t. But if you are a believer in the open source, want to help build the largest web index, you may like to do so, same as people are doing with Wikipedia. If you are a webmaster also there is an extra advantage. Clients you run will start crawling closer content first, i.e. your sites before moving outside. You will not have to wait for a search engine to decide to include you, you include your self, and see how your website is being crawled. Even though, I think that offering some advantage in return is a must given that we are building their search engine which they will be making money out of. If it succeeds, we are talking about a hell lot of money not only few thousands or millions. Since the client uses registered username, and all his shares resources are tracked, this could be a good start to promise small shares for contributers in return.
As for the Grub site it self, I haven’t been much impressed with it so far, even though I think the idea is marvelous. Initially page did not load any content. Some files are empty, some pages are giving run time errors, and the downloaded client log is full of “Primary exchange with the server failed”. I don’t believe the Wikia sponsored project has come to a good public start. Let’s wait and see how it goes after.
Thinking about what could be the affect of this project shall it succeed. Possible Google threat? It sure is. Some people hate Google, many others don’t like to be locked to single resource, and I really believe competition is healthy. What else? Spammers. I could be running many spam junky sites, and share big amount of resources to ensure my sites are indexed. There is still no details about how spam sites are handled.
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