Sarreq Teryx Posted May 23, 2008 Report Posted May 23, 2008 http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~bwong/cubit/Cubit is a system that provides fully decentralized approximate keyword search capabilities to Azureus as a standard plugin. Approximate search means that you can use Cubit to find a movie, song or artist even if you don't know which spelling variation is used in the title or in her name. It gives you what you mean instead of what you asked for exactly, and returns the best results in the network in only a few seconds.
MinisterPhobia Posted May 23, 2008 Report Posted May 23, 2008 Any chance of anyone taking the source for this and building it directly into uTorrent? No offense to the Azereus guys, but, uTorrent kicks ass.
jewelisheaven Posted May 26, 2008 Report Posted May 26, 2008 You can add search engines... http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0018.html is the spec for 1.8 .BTSEARCH automation, OR use the preferences pane.Nothing useful here IMO actually... the client isn't responsible for searching. The sites you search are. You want to search alot of sites, use an aggregator.
Ultima Posted May 26, 2008 Report Posted May 26, 2008 That's like saying "don't use DHT -- that's what trackers are for."
jewelisheaven Posted May 26, 2008 Report Posted May 26, 2008 ... quite right. But i still don't see why the client should be responsible for handling search requests.
Sarreq Teryx Posted May 26, 2008 Author Report Posted May 26, 2008 the point of this one is that it's a serverless torrent search. it's not an aggregator, it doesn't touch a web based search engine, making it more immune to media company attacks.
jewelisheaven Posted May 27, 2008 Report Posted May 27, 2008 Unfortunately... you can inject results through it the same way you could inject peers through PEX or DHT into a swarm.
path0s Posted May 27, 2008 Report Posted May 27, 2008 Yeah, it's a serverless torrent search. Seems like a really nice idea to me. I don't imagine it would be any more spammy/bogus than the mega public web trackers are now. Just to repeat, it doesn't scrape any webpages or anything like that. It's p2p.With all the recent legal developments towards website trackers, this isn't a bad idea.Why not just have an option to turn it on/off, with the default option being off? That should satisfy most everyone?-P
Sarreq Teryx Posted May 29, 2008 Author Report Posted May 29, 2008 Unfortunately... you can inject results through it the same way you could inject peers through PEX or DHT into a swarm.probably true, but I was more thinking in terms of lawsuits against trackers and aggregators.do peer injectors work against a fully encrypted swarm?
Sarreq Teryx Posted July 26, 2008 Author Report Posted July 26, 2008 well, that's unfortunate. a way to flag bogus results might be good too then.anyway, back on subject, do-able? any interest?
Ultima Posted July 26, 2008 Report Posted July 26, 2008 If you're allowed to flag files as bad, then people who wish to inject trash into the search results can just as easily mess with the system by marking non-bogus files as bogus.
Sarreq Teryx Posted July 27, 2008 Author Report Posted July 27, 2008 possibly, but I meant it as only a warning system, not a way to block a torrent outright.
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