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Re:Updating Torrents via DHT Mutable Items by Mizza on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @08:25PM (#12258672)
It isn't 1995, this is exactly my point. If we're trying to design new systems, we shouldn't design them with the exact same problems. What's the point of "decentralizing" if it just means another Google?
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Re:Updating Torrents via DHT Mutable Items by nine_k on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @11:06PM (#12259254)
The approach of yacy.net may be partly applicable to IPFS.

Donating resources to a "traditional" scanning search engine is also probably doable. But unlike Web, IPFS lacks intense linking and thus "citation ranking" (PageRank-like). Measuring relevance is harder.

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