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zeeveener | 8 years ago

MY_PC: "Who is hosting a webpage with the following information?" My 1000 connected peers: "Here are 500 more peers who say they do"

Proceed to witness extreme bandwidth usage every query.

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amelius|8 years ago

That only works if the computer you're connecting to has an index of the entire web.

It will probably be more like this:

- So you're looking for "kitten videos"? Well, you can ask computer X for words starting with "k", then ask computer Y for words starting with "v", and then I'll perform a logical AND operation to get your final results.

But how we make this as fast as Google is beyond me.

And also don't forget that we have to factor in the problem of security (some nodes may be sending in wrong results, e.g. spam).