An overview of the project's ideas and intents can be found below . The project is a follow-up to our previous research work described here . That was an international research project that verified the concept and provided a working GPL'ed code that can be downloaded . The code needs cleaning up and further development.
New functionality needs to be supported.
This update is in the planning stage, and the design of the new version is discussed in the Docs and Forums areas on the SourceForge . We are interested in your opinion. Computational load is spread among participating nodes both at indexing and at query processing time. Adding a new node does not require extensive computing or network resources Different nodes can specialise in indexing specific topics or sources. For example, Web sites, library catalogues and newsgroup archives can be searched simultaneously.