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Re:Ask HN: Would you use a free distributed computing SaaS? by koesterd on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @09:41AM (#10806839)
I think YaCy[1] is similar to what you describe.

[1] http://yacy.net/en/index.html

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Re:Ask HN: Would you use a free distributed computing SaaS? by BjoernKW on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @06:01AM (#10811614)
Yes, pretty much. This never took off though, to a large part because the UX sucked and the search results used to be terrible. It's a classic chicken-and-egg problem: The search results get better with more users but you can only hope to acquire users if the results are any good right off the bat.
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