The German government has established a P2P searchengine, S2S, which will decentralise searches and bring all of the above under one search/p2p engine.

Fundamentally it is like Kazaa however Kazaa ony uses the info in the Metafile for info searches. This new search engine/P2P engine creates an index file of the whole file. Through the "provider peers" people can share this info in a folder. The "Consumer Peer" then can search all of the providers for a certain info (in the larger, more detailed index file) and download it (just like DC).

Benefits include: Decentralised search info files resulting in realtime searches and no "Page not found" 's + immediate search updates (not have to whait for googles robots to spot and catalogue it) + unbiased, unlogged searches (google STORES your searches and ip numbers for 30 years so that all your dirty little secrets are logged). It is like DC but DC has a limitation as you can only search on file name or folder.

Drawback (actually a benefit as it eliminates some internet junk): No easy backup of files.

Sign up to be a beta-tester here:
http://s2s.neofonie.de/anmeldung.jsp

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