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How to find a nice SHA1 hash? How do keyword search in this list? Search and discovery of quality are unsolved scientific challenges. Fascinating stuff.

At our university lab we've been working on this for 25 years. Building a search engine is the easy part. Keeping a federated server with a billion users running is unsolved. Creating a fully -serverless- decentralised search engine is possible, you also need self-funding economy. Seems we're one of the few labs worldwide to still make actual operational prototypes of this stuff. More shameless self promotion:

"SwarmSearch: Decentralized Search Engine with Self-Funding Economy" [0]

Really handy to have s search engine to search this webpage with 45,671,926,166,590,716,193,865,151,022,383,844,364,247,891,968 pages and the rest of the web (no spyware, no tracking).

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07452

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If you’re interested in mass market adoption rather than just proving the theory, you will need to change the name. “LimeWire” is fun. “SwarmSearch” sounds like a biblical plague.