Kan, however, did not rule out the possibility that he or someone else would create a separate company to do that. Google President Sergey Brin, a PhD from Stanford University who has been studying search technologies since the mid-1990s, says his firm is already looking into harnessing Gnutella's power. But he believes Infrasearch is too primitive right now to be put into commercial use. Officials from Yahoo and Lycos declined comment. Even Infrasearch enthusiasts concede that the very things that make it attractive make it dangerous.
Security is a major concern.
Since individual Web site administrators control the responses delivered in response to searches, computer viruses, child pornography or something as innocuous but annoying as advertisements might pop up unexpectedly. Potentially more daunting, however, are Infrasearch's political obstacles. News Jobs AP Shopping Archives Entertain.