Grub

Sun Oct 19 18:08:59 PDT 2003

Was interested in the reference to Grub as I'm studying Online Information 
Retrieval (as well as Info Security) and have tried it. I cannot say that I 
am impressed, but it is beta. The information about Grub is confusing; if I 
understand the site blurbs correctly, it is a distributed [SETI-like- 
approach to building up their URLs for a for-profit site. Hum.

Any specific information on why you think it is great? WiseNut and 
WiseSearch off of Grub don't [yet] seem exceptional.

>>How long will it be before someone writes an application which, once 
>>distributed, replaces Google as the premier search engine, worldwide, 
>>redundantly cached, perhaps language-neutral, with error checking to 
>>protect against cache poisoning and encrypted channels to prevent 
>>in-transit corruption of results?
>
>It's already here.  It's called Grub:
>http://www.grub.org/